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Suzanne Woolley
Income inequality and life expectancy hurt the U.S. standing in a retirement security index.
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Dan Jamieson
Finra alleged that the firm did not report or inaccurately reported options positions in 21.1 million instances.
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Dan Jamieson
The old-style direct fund business is fading as broker-dealers look to consolidate business in-house after the DOL rule.
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Suzanne Woolley
The government’s latest report on Social Security is bad enough. Trends in income inequality and health care make it worse.
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Ted Knutson
Insitutions have a price advantage when it comes to muni-bond pricing, which raises issues of fairness, this professor says.
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Gregory Bresiger
The CFP Board released the names of six advisors who have declared bankruptcy since the fall.
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Christopher Robbins
Fewer than one-in-four millennials demonstrate basic financial literacy, the survey says.
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Steven T. Dennis, Laura Litvan
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the chamber will vote on a straight repeal-- a proposal with even steeper hurdles than his replacement bill.
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Sid Verma
Economists led by Alec Phillips suggest passage of health legislation within the next several months remains possible.
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Sid Verma
The second-quarter earnings season is set to beat the consensus, the firm's equity strategist says.
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Shahien Nasiripour
A new report quantifies the negative impact of the significant rise in college-related borrowing.
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Gabrielle Coppola
It’s classic subprime: hasty loans, rapid defaults, and, at times, outright fraud.
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Sid Verma
The bank says there’s still juice in the equity rally.
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Ben Mattlin
The Milliman Sustainable Income Plan is technically a defined benefit plan, but benefits adjust with the plan's performance.
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Christopher Robbins
UBS will leverage iCapital to automate its alternative investment offerings within its wealth management business.
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Christopher Robbins
Fiduciary Benchmarks has launched a tool to simplify the process of making DOL rule-complaint rollover recommendations.
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Rachel Evans
The company has filed for a fund that would track a proprietary index of the 1,000 largest U.S. companies.
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Christopher Robbins
Advisors using the Schwab platform have seen median 10% annual AUM growth the past five years, the company says.
