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Mariner Wealth has jumped into the burgeoning space recently abandoned by LPL’s NestWise.

The passage last night by wide margins -- an 81-18 vote in the Democratic-led Senate, followed by a 285-144 vote in the Republican-controlled House -- allows the U.S. to avoid default and ends the shutdown that began Oct. 1 and has taken $24 billion out of the U.S. economy.

After selecting an asset allocation for clients, locating assets where they are most tax-efficient is critical.

The agreement would end the 16-day-old government shutdown and extend U.S. borrowing authority, which lapses tomorrow. House Republicans today signaled that they will allow it to pass. The biggest remaining question is how quickly the agreement could become law. The first votes could be held as soon as today.

With $1.4 billion in assets already, firm aims to become a Southern California giant.

Three big industry names are joining forces to form a new wealth management firm, Lebenthal Wealth Advisors.

There are many ways to tilt portfolios toward small cap and value. Here are three alternatives for portfolio construction.

How can you tell whether your own goals are appropriately aggressive? Two things helped new solo advisor Dave Grant understand this.

The fiscal showdown in Washington entered its final stages as the House and Senate prepared competing plans that would end the 15-day-old government shutdown and prevent the U.S. from missing promised payments.

SEC Chairman Mary Jo White said the agency will review corporate disclosure rules to root out requirements that may be causing “information overload” for investors.

The work that earned Eugene Fama the Nobel Prize in economics provided the intellectual foundation for index-tracking funds, which have upended stock picking as investors abandon active money managers.

Advisors at NAPFA describe how they’re working remotely with a majority of their clients. “More and more clients will expect this kind of service,” they say.

With markets moving swiftly, advisors sometimes rebalance more than once a year.

Here’s how to build a diversified portfolio with just a few low-cost funds. It’s the ultimate conclusion from Modern Portfolio Theory.

The company's first product is an iPhone app that aims to take the hassle out of budgeting for young people.

Because excess capital losses can be carried forward to future tax returns, with no expiration date, clients can use this “bank” of losses to offset future net capital gains.

High income can only come with high risk, a lesson investors learned painfully in 2008. Here’s a better way to think about fixed income.

The seven winners of this year's Financial Planning 2013 Influencer Awards have earned their accolades with impressive individual accomplishments and a commitment to bettering the financial advice industry. Some of the following may be familiar names; others are, as they say, "famous to a few." Click through to see this year's winners.

The board voted Thursday to adopt two attestation standards pertaining to audits of brokers and dealers, along with an auditing standard for broker-dealer audits.

President Obama and House GOP leaders were moving toward an agreement to extend the nation’s borrowing authority as they remained at odds over terms for ending the partial government shutdown.