Neil Simon, the director of the Financial Planning Association's Government Relations Department, headquartered in Washington, D.C...
Independent advisor firms with annual revenues of $1 million or more devote more time to attracting and keeping employees, according to a new study...
Fee-only advisors are taking a more active role in endorsing annuities that charge a flat-fee...
A former Ameritrade executive has been named chief operating officer of The MuniCenter L.L.C., a fixed-income trading system founded six years ago...
Eaton Vance is offering a tax-managed account designed for investors whose qualified retirement plans have hit their contribution limits...
Fee-only advisors are taking a more active role in endorsing annuities that charge a flat-fee...
Schwab Performance Technologies recently announced the release of a new, enhanced version of PortfolioCenter, the portfolio management system that has more than 3,000 users...
The CFP Board of Standards has renamed its key governing bodies and named new members to the board of governors...
National Financial has integrated service resolution, tracking and reporting into its Streetscape workstation...
The Internal Revenue Service has announced increased deductibility levels for long-term care insurance polices purchased in 2007...
Pershing Advisor Solutions LLC, a unit of The Bank of New York, has launched an account management solution for the clients of independent RIAs...
During a ceremony today at the Schwab Impact 2006 Conference in Washington, D.C...
Morningstar is offering investors a tool that allows them to get a truer picture of their personal stock and fund investment returns...
Nationwide Financial Services feels it has a possible answer for a vexing question: Am I ready to retire? The company is offering at its Web site, at...
Trust Company of America, a firm that provides custody, trading, and back office services to fee-based and fee-only financial advisors through their proprietary technology...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering increasing the threshold that determines whether a Registered Investment Advisor is regulated by the SEC or state securities...
A 15-year Fidelity veteran will take over as head of the company's RIA group...
Progressive Asset Management is launching a group of investments that's designed to bring benchmark indexes into the area of socially responsible investing...
BlackRock Inc. announced it has completed its acquisition of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, creating a unit with more than $1 trillion in assets under management...
Nearly a year into the federal government's overhaul of the nation's bankruptcy laws, attorneys say the changes have done more harm than good...