Financial planning

Higher taxes on long-term capital gains may revive interest in like-kind exchanges of investment property.

LPL Financial broke out of its recruiting slump in the third quarter, adding 154 net new advisors, nearly five times as many as the previous quarter.

The processes used by the IRS to verify taxpayers’ income and withholding status are inadvertently resulting in the issuance of potentially fraudulent tax refunds, according to a new report.

A measure that would put the brakes on the Department of Labor's proposal to establish a fiduciary standard for advisors to retirement plans was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives in a largely party-line vote on Tuesday.

Rebalancing is simple, but not easy to do. With automated rebalanicing, little or no action is required to achieve even more consistent investment allocation.

A time management study showed Amerprise advisor Susan A. Riley-Hayes how she could maximize her staffing levels and fee structure.

The CFP Board’s highly publicized $36 million 'Let's Make a Plan' campaign may have misled consumers.

Do you know enough about Social Security? For mass-affluent clients, it will be a sizable portion of their retirement income so now is the time to brush up.

The firms have been sanctioned by the SEC for violating the custody rule that requires them to meet certain standards when maintaining custody of their clients’ funds or securities.

Lawmakers are set to begin debate today on a bill that would delay, perhaps indefinitely, a proposal by the Department of Labor to impose a fiduciary standard on advisors to retirement plans.

The Opsahl Group, led by senior advisor Joseph Opsahl and advisor Chris Hatfield, is leaving Merrill Lynch’s Private Client Group to work with True, a key Dynasty Financial Partners firm in the Pacific Northwest.

Here’s the argument for talking your clients into taking less risk today to get higher returns in the future.

Women are earning more, inheriting more and controlling more wealth than ever before. This is a huge market awaiting every financial advisor, if he or she understands some key points about working with female clients.

Instead of converting a traditional IRA to one Roth IRA, convert to two or more Roth IRAs, by asset class or by individual securities.

Here’s why these questionnaires don’t work -- and a better way to assess how much risk a client should take on.

Nearly all advisors include international equities in portfolio construction so why would we exclude the even larger asset class of international bonds?

Here’s a sampling of bank reps who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

The SEC is conducting nationwide, "limited scope examinations" of certain mutual funds that invest in Puerto Rico securities, according to a document obtained by The Bond Buyer and knowledgeable sources.

The most important reason to engage in pro bono work is to help those who are in need of free advice. But pro bono work can also pay off in other ways.

A renewed federal emphasis on financial literacy education could have an ancillary payoff for the financial planning profession: more new planners.