Wealth management

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While the demise of the Department of Labor’s regulation will hurt investors, it makes fiduciary advisors even more relevant.

SmartAsset provides personal finance information and tools to over 45 million users per month, says the firm.

Advisors should frame health care costs as an annual expense rather than a lump sum, which is demotivating for investors, according to Vanguard.

Issuers want the regulator to go further and make it easier for managers to choose the securities they add or subtract when they issue and redeem shares.

Royal Alliance Associates will absorb the firm following the deal, which would push the network’s headcount above 6,800 advisors.

Her fresh criticism comes after FINRA barred her former Morgan Stanley branch manager this week.

Wells Fargo has lost at least 80 brokers managing more than $12 billion in assets before the end of the second quarter.

The firm’s largest investors have already been in talks about strategic options, according to people familiar with the matter.

This group racked up strong returns over a 24-year span of above-median inflation.

Despite the profession’s efforts to attract and retain women, demeaning experiences at industry events could be keeping them away — or driving them out.

The No. 1 IBD launched an investment offering aimed at the distributed ledger technology its research unit says could disrupt nearly every industry.

Every man in the financial services industry should read this article, Nina O’Neal writes.

The Minneapolis bank is pitching the automated investment advice platform, a joint venture with a BlackRock unit, to a wide range of age groups, not just younger consumers.

Author and Commonwealth Financial Chairman Joseph Deitch discusses how to gain a better understanding of yourself and your clients, and how to resolve differences.

Forty-one percent of client-facing finance workers have had negative experiences that “still keep them up at night,” a Schwab survey finds.

Disparate voices in the fiduciary debate agree that Form CRS might be too dense and complex to achieve meaningful disclosure.

One option for the higher earning spouse is to use an IRA as payment.

One JPMorgan client thought it was “odd and weird” that the advisor called during the Memorial Day holiday, on behalf of Merrill Lynch.

The firm scaled back its investment bank after the financial crisis to reduce risk and focus on its large wealth-management business.