Financial planning

Challenges to social media protocols by employees fired for violating them are succeeding with increasing frequency.

Not only are the requirements of the Affordable Care Act difficult and complicated for businesses to understand, but in many cases those aspects that businesses and their advisors think they understand are already slated to change in the future, according to one expert.

The more your home page talks about prospects, the more they will want to explore. So stop talking about yourself and talk about what your clients are interested in – themselves and their special needs.

With my startup growing more slowly than I'd hoped, I've tried to find strategies that keep me focused and confident.

Recent studies have found that as people age, many lose their ability to make sound financial decisions. So what can be done to safeguard elderly clients’ hard earned assets?

The IRS is starting this year's Earned Income Tax Credit due diligence compliance audits of return preparers.

The booming stock market rally of recent years makes now a prudent time for advisors to revisit what we learned about modern portfolio theory and apply those lessons -- before we find ourselves in the middle of another down cycle when mistakes snowball.

The key to winning millennial clients is to provide more for less—constantly. Here are a few ideas.

Tax reform legislation is unlikely to move forward this year, but municipal bond market participants shouldn’t think that the threat to the tax exemption for munis is gone, observers in the market said.

These advisors ranked 51 through 100 in our final analysis.Today we are showing Nos. 51 through 75. Yesterday, we had Nos. 76 through 100..

It's clear that the underserved female market represents a remarkable opportunity. But how can advisors reach out to this market and speak more effectively to female clients and prospects?

Increased taxes on long-term capital gains has renewed interest in trusts that can sell donated assets, avoid tax, and pay a stream of income to the donors.

These days, many people declare themselves experts in social media and will try to sell you seminars, training, and coaching services. Should you use them?

How do you expand your practice to more than $4 billion in AUM? For one firm, it's by helping clients align their investments with their value systems

Family business owners are more focused on sustaining their business’s longevity than on sustaining wealth across future generations, according to a new survey.

Treasuries fluctuated before the government sells $32 billion of two-year notes as part of $96 billion of coupon-bearing securities auctions this week.

Some planners have implemented online capabilities to serve an increasingly tech-hungry public. But how much tech is enough – and does too much get in the way of good planning?

What could cause the dollar to fall and inflation to rise? Planners should keep their eyes on three potential triggers.

An SEC advisory committee on Friday recommended that the commission appeal to Congress for authority to collect user fees from advisors to enhance its oversight of the RIA sector and enact rules to tighten regulation of broker-dealers.

A 529 owned by a grandparent doesn’t count as an asset on the standard financial aid form but planning is necessary to avoid an aid reduction when money is withdrawn to pay college bills.