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Fed Risks Fomenting Financial Bubbles In Zeal To Lift Inflation

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A drive to boost inflation through low interest rates could end up threatening financial stability.

How Your Clients Can Use Their IRAs To Make Charitable Donations

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Retirees over age 70½ who can’t deduct donations this year can use this valuable work-around.

UBS Weighing Asset Management Options Including Merger

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Asset managers are seeking scale to fend off low-cost competitors.

State Street Debuts Two Sector Rotation SPDR ETFs

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One focuses on equities, the other on fixed income. Both are a fund of funds.

Active Fund Managers Get Blown Up Again After Hot Start To 2019

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Only 36% of fund managers are beating their benchmarks.

Deutsche Bank's U.S. Unit Kept Billions In Dirty Money Flowing

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Ex-workers say scrutiny of individual clients was discouraged.

Higher Interest Rates Make Broker-Dealers' Day

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The tick up in short-term interest rates has brought a necessary source of income back into play for B-Ds.

Americans Find A New Definition Of Retirement

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The Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies examined what retirement means to three generations.

Tariff War Will Hammer Global Trade Growth This Year, WTO Says

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The WTO also predicts that GDP growth will slow to the mid-2 percent range over the next 21 months.

Utah Ski Mecca Beats Aspen, Key West As Top U.S. Vacation Spot

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The Beehive State was the first ranked vacation destination in the U.S. according to Bloomberg.

IRA Savers Would Get More Time To Fund Accounts In House Bill

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If signed into law, the bill would push back the age at which clients must start taking RMDs.

This Time Is Different For Yield Curve? They Said That Last Time

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The inverted yield curve has economists and analysts wondering if it really is different this time.

New York Private Bank & Trust Forms Strategic Partnership With NorthRock Partners

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The deal provides the advisory firm with capital to expand its brick-and mortar offices.

Top Senate Democrat Touts Annual Capital Gains Tax Ahead Of 2020

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Congressional Democrats have reintroduced a measure to apply an annual capital gains tax to savers and investors.

Trend-Following Quants Taste Comeback Powered By Bond Mania

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A bull market in bonds gave hedge funds their best quarter in months - but they're only up 1.9 percent.

Manhattan Home Sales Drop To Decade Low For A First Quarter

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The new cap on federal state and local tax deductions may be dampening buyer sentiment in New York.

Cerity Partners Acquires Blue Prairie Group, Creating $21 Billion RIA

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Blue Prairie oversees $11 billion in retirement plan assets.

Despite Market-Buoyed 401(k) Balances, Plan Participant Anxieties Are Rising

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Are advisors ready to allay the fears of retirement plan participants?

Help Wanted: Online FPA Board Designed To Help Job Seekers

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FPA Job Board will connect financial planning job seekers with advisory firms.

Trump's Reversal Puts Off GOP's Obamacare Replacement Past 2020

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Amid the president's latest reversal, what happens to healthcare as a campaign issue is anybody's guess.