Financial planning

Advisors can do a better job when it comes to preparing team members to succeed.

The company has a new deal with a Texas firm targeting ultrahigh-net-worth clients.

ETFs let you maintain asset allocation while taking tax losses.

Here’s a look at ten of the most influential executives in the business and their insights, concerns and predictions for the future of the advisory industry.

Bill Gross no longer runs the world’s largest mutual fund.

Investor demand improved, despite the continuation of outflows from municipal bond mutual funds for a 23rd consecutive week, at $503 million for the week of Oct. 30.

The IRS released the annual cost-of-living adjustments last week affecting dollar limitations for pension plans and other retirement-related items for tax year 2014.

After columnist (and startup RIA) Dave Grant discussed the challenges of having prospects say no, Chad Smith — an advisor at Financial Symmetry in Raleigh, N.C. — sympathized on Twitter.

Can a different investment model create greater portfolio diversification than the traditional 60/40 asset allocation model?

What, exactly, do high-performing advisory firms do differently than their less successful peers?

The real estate market may have had its ups and downs in recent years, but REITs are holding their value and merit a place in client portfolios.

Gold is down from it's high of around $1890 in 2011, but some investors are still inquiring about including gold and other precious metals in their portfolios.

The Treasury Department and the IRS have loosened the “use it or lose it” rule for flexible spending arrangements for health care, allowing participants in health benefit plans to carry over up to $500 from their FSA from year to year.

The agency issued its annual inflation adjustments for more than 40 tax provisions, including the tax rate schedules, and other tax changes for 2014.

Eight leading managers of money-market mutual funds urged the SEC to alter the way it defines retail funds in proposed new rules for the industry.

At its most basic, relative strength is a ratio of stock or index price-to-market average or other indices.

Wealthy families' tangled needs can create a mess of inconsistencies and other problems.

The academic community is struggling to mint new financial planners as fast as the industry gobbles them up.

The changes to the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program introduce credit underwriting criteria to the product for the first time, which until now only had been using actuarial standards in the decision making process, a reverse mortgage specialist said.

If a storm similar to Hurricane Sandy makes landfall, how many homeowners would default on their mortgage?