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The Internal Revenue Service granted additional relief to victims of Hurricane Harvey on Wednesday by making it easier for 401(k)s and other employer-sponsored retirement plans to give loans and hardship distributions to aid victims.

Hurricane Harvey provides a grim reminder of how traumatic it can be to face the effects of severe weather. Here’s how to be effective if it happens to your clients.

Planners share how they are finding new revenue streams for their business.

Banks need to re-assign some of their wealth management clients, says Arthur Osman, executive VP, institution services at LPL. This can lower costs, help develop new talent and with the right touch, clients won’t feel disconnected from the bank, he says.

One advisor says the fiduciary rule prompted the latest wirehouse exit to an RIA.

The number of annual new SEC registrations has jumped by 150% since 2000.

Evacuating floodwaters with his pregnant wife, two children and a “very angry cat,” an advisor gets a personal reminder that the people he serves are a lot more than just names and numbers.

Clients ready to quit the workforce in advance need to understand the impact of doing so on their Social Security benefits, Michael Kitces writes.

The agency will allow some Texas residents to file certain individual and business tax returns and make some tax payments as late as Jan. 31.

The independent firm was founded by two former Merrill Lynch advisors in 2012.

These plans once merely supplemented health insurance. Now they are a vital part of a broader retirement strategy.

The most difficult challenge for a new firm? For some, it’s not location or even hiring.

The cleanup goes on long after the storm has passed. Here’s how financial planners can provide advice for one of clients’ most expensive traumas.

Advisors' best practices for aiding clients affected by natural disasters.

Three quarters of the firm’s 57 new recruits have come from the largest firms.

The move will likely be seen as a win by the opponents of the regulation.

Many financial institutions have activated their emergency centers, closed branches and stocked ATMs in advance of landfall.

Disaster survival tips from Texas-based advisor Rick Woolfolk, who is also a Civil Air Patrol representative for the U.S. Air Force.

The founders of today’s most successful advisory firms won’t change because of an “invisible scar,” says columnist Bob Veres.

Ensuring that a client's windfall today lasts longer than just tomorrow takes more than financial acumen, experts say.