Wealth management

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.

Educators say they expect full explanation and transparency.

Advisor network Northstar Wealth Partners added two new advisors managing a combined $800 million in client assets with the help of its independent broker-dealer.

NAPFA’s new leaders are stressing new initiatives to expand the organization’s education programs and its membership.

Using mostly passive strategies results in lower fees and better performance, but there are cases where active management can add value.

The crisis represents a call for advisors to offer the one thing most individual investors can't provide for themselves: an objective, experienced and unemotional perspective, unclouded by fear and based instead upon short- and long-term goals.

Almost half (46%) of advisors believe their clients donate to charity to reduce their taxes, when in fact only 10% do.

Bill Gross, who has been telling investors to favor short-term Treasuries, is following through on his own advice as longer-maturity bonds suffer their biggest losses in four years.

But congressional politics are likely to put changes on hold for now, expert tells NAPFA conference.

Clients turned the tables on advisors Wednesday afternoon -- giving advice to the attendees at NAPFA’s fall conference in Philadelphia, rather than receiving it.

In his article, “Reevaluating Banks’ Investment Programs,” John Brunett, Chief Trust and Investment Officer at Los Alamos National Bank, proposes seven ideas to help assist bank managers, investment program directors, and bank investment consultants to improve and streamline their programs to achieve a higher bottom line.

The tax-focused independent broker-dealer has added two new executives to its management ranks.

Investors chase performance because it feels good, but pain is a good sign we are helping our clients invest well.