Given the many lawsuits filed against retirement plan sponsors in recent years for breaching their fiduciary duties, here are the steps plan committees should be taking to mitigate risk.
Here's a list of the costs that have become qualified expenses for 529 plans in the past decade.
You’ll have a tough time acquiring new clients, or eventually selling your firm and retiring, if your service model is stuck back in the '90s.
The new generation of nontraded REITs has been designed with monthly or quarterly repurchase limits to align the interests of stockholders with the less liquid nature of the assets.
A successful value exchange requires a demonstration of worth as a matter of consistent policy and procedure to build the trust needed to improve the client’s financial well-being.
The majority of advisors have some clients who are unprofitable or no longer a good fit for them.
Fifty years after the passage of ERISA, the insurance industry has come to the rescue with solutions that allow retirement plans to address the problem of decumulation.
While the economics have to work for the owners and partners of the firm, they have to make sense for the next-gen advisors, too.
Accounting firms are expanding rapidly into wealth management. But can tax and audit experts transition to financial advisory careers?
The longer the bear market continues, the more likely your clients will be to abandon their financial plans, sell their growth assets, and potentially impair their financial futures.
What better time to work with your clients on positioning their portfolios for a better after-tax outcome than when paying taxes is fresh on their mind?
The 'anti-woke' crowd found a boogeyman in Anheuser-Busch just as it has with ESG broadly.
One of the nation’s largest banks experienced a series of governance lapses that resulted in the mismanagement of interest-rate risk.
The pace and breadth of the agency's current rulemaking is not allowing for constructive criticism from the people implementing the rules.
Politicians' manufactured controversies are having minimal impact in boardrooms.
Amid volatile markets, it's important that financial professionals provide clients with Empathy, Perspective, Insights and Choices.
The preeminent conflict of the commission-based model is that it forces you to put the pursuit of new clients ahead of serving your existing ones.
The investments may fit the times, but lack of choice and transparency, and liability fears help explain why some are dissatisfied with the offerings.
Here’s a look at the four primary ways in which model portfolios can benefit an advisory firm’s growth goals.
The rise of AI doesn't have to mean you're about to be obsolete. Instead, this latest tech could become your most productive business builder.
