Practice management

When a client is a performer, athlete or anyone else with a variable income, a planner needs a special strategy.

Three out of four global investors expect President Barack Obama and congressional leaders to reach a short-term agreement to avert more than $600 billion in spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to begin on Jan. 1.

President Obama’s top economic adviser challenged Republican congressional leaders to put an offer on the table in fiscal-cliff talks and defended Obama’s debt-reduction proposals as concrete and detailed.

The recent talk of a fiscal cliff compromise from Republicans and Democrats appear to have dissolved as leaders of both sides leveled pointed criticism at the other for failing to offer a truly balanced plan for taxes and spending cuts. So what's next?

The SEC has accused a Chicago advisor and his firm of defrauding clients and others by promising them a private equity fund the firm managed would “beat the market."

Investors looking out for the fabled fiscal cliff should be careful not to tumble down the “earnings cliff,” if corporate profits plunge.

Will FINRA’s announcement that it will consider new disclosure guidelines for recruitment incentives be a boon or bane?

Strong networking is critical if advisors want to attract defined contribution plans, according to a white paper from Franklin Templeton.

Married millionaire women are more risk averse, more interested in holistic financial planning and they may be better candidates for financial advice than their male counterparts according to research released by Fidelity on Thursday.

With women on pace to take control of more wealth in the coming years, female clients represent a major opportunity for financial advisors who make a concerted effort to engage with them. This could be bad news for advisors, both male and female, who don’t understand how to communicate with women clients. This was the theme at Fidelity Investments’ Growth Strategies Forum: Engaging Women Clients, conference on Wednesday.

The co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s 2010 fiscal commission said it’s unlikely the president and Congress will reach a deal by the end of this year to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.

President Obama plans a private lunch tomorrow with his election opponent Mitt Romney, amid a face-off with congressional Republicans over taxes and spending and how to cut the deficit.

Spectrem’s monthly measure of wealthy investors’ outlook took a dive in November due to year-end worries.

Long-time advisors Bill Duncan and Ziv Ohel joined Ameriprise in Deerfield, Ill.

Sure, investors still feel nervous, companies are hesitating to spend cash, and all attention is on fixed income and bond funds.

Symmetry Partners, a registered investment advisory based in Glastonbury, Conn., announced the release of a new mobile application for its financial advisor clients on Tuesday.

“Our report confirms the hypothesis that investment advisors need to engage in technology to attract and retain clients in this market segment,” said Al Chiaradonna, senior vice president of SEI’s Global Wealth Services.

How many business owners have worked with an advisor to put a firm succession plan in place? Not many, but most are still confident their businesses will continue to be successful once after they retire, according to a Merrill survey.

No matter who you are, interviewing for a job can be stressful, but why? There are a few reasons and the stress makes sense when you analyze them.

Elisse Walter, who has spent the past four years as Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro’s closest confidant and behind-the-scenes adviser, will soon step into the spotlight that she has mostly shunned in trying to help her close friend succeed.