DOL fiduciary rule, taxes and Social Security are all prime subjects for discussion as five contenders look for opportunities to stand out.
Six areas in which planning for couples with a wide age difference may require different financial advice.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Corporate earnings are expected to decline 4.1%, and the stock market hunkers down for a rough earnings season.
Federal Reserve vice chairman Stanley Fischer doesn't see immediate risks of financial bubbles but is concerned that the central bank's policy tool kit to deal with them is limited and untested.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The third quarter was not kind to active fund managers, with two-thirds unable to beat their benchmarks.
Talk of adding more characters to tweets is nice, but advisers should be wary.
Free on $200,000 bond, Galen Marsh faces as long as five years in prison when he's sentenced Dec. 7
New study finds auto enrollment plans help a lot of workers as fears surrounding the financial crisis fade.
BofA study finds auto enrollment plans helping a lot but workers, particularly younger ones, are more confident as the financial crisis continues to fade.
65-year-old couple retiring this year should expect to spend $245,000 on health care costs, up $25K from last year.
New technology called EMV chips makes it almost impossible to counterfeit your credit card. Here's how to use it.
This is how to wade through the alphabet soup of HDHPs, HSAs, FSAs and more.
Funding set until Dec. 11 but before then, lawmakers have to replenish federal highway funding and raise the debt limit.
A House committee will take up the measure Wednesday, but Rep. Ann Wagner says it isn't clear when it would come before the full House and how much bipartisan support it would garner.
Alicia Munnell, a longtime critic of 401(k) plans, says she will no longer deride defined contribution plans for producing less savings than a traditional pension.
Every year, Americans give up thousands of dollars of income by filing for Social Security benefits too early. New study finds a third of people who file early had enough assets in IRAs to make up for two years of Social Security checks.
Expect language that would brighten the line between education and advice, and expand the list of permissible assets for retirement plans, to name a few.
Politico reports the measure will move to the Office of Management and Budget by Jan. 31, setting the stage for finalization.
Lawmakers could write legislation within days &mdash; and attach it to a must-pass spending bill &mdash; that would replace the Labor Department's pending rule to raise investment advice standards for retirement accounts, effectively killing it.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Now that hedge funds have the green light to market their wares, they're zeroing in on independent advisers.
