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The Securities and Exchange Commission examines only 10 percent of investment advisors per year, but that doesn’t mean the other 90 percent are not re...
Resplendent with controversy and mudslinging, this election cycle has chided investors into increasing their cash holdings, says a new survey from BlackRock. More than half of investors have decided to only incre...
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Millennials may strive for financial independence, but as a whole, they've been slow to break out on their own. According to Fidelity Investments' Millennia...
Scared and confused is how Americans feel about handling their personal finances, says a new report by SmartDollar and Ramsey Solutions. While 26 percent say they are scared and 25 percent feel confused about han...
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Consider the source here, but Breitbart.com is reporting on a Woodbridge Wealth survey that 83 percent of financial advisors p...
While many studies signal a growing debt crisis in America, a new survey of nearly 3,000 U.S. adults indicates that Americans’ debt may not be as big a problem as you’d think. A recent GOBankingRates.com survey fou...
PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts major changes coming to the financial services industry by 2020, especially in the makeup of a firm’s workforce and how it is recruited, organized and compensated. With automation ...
Coach 'em up.
Fidelity Clearing & Custody Solutions is partnering with Ron Carson’s coaching firm, Peak Advisor Alliance, to provide coaching and peer learning opportunities to its advisors. Fidelity will introduc...
Help is available.
Envestnet is the latest firm to create tools to help advisors comply with the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule, which takes effect next April. The firm’s tools include a best interest asses...
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Because women have a longer life expectancy than men, they spend more time in retirement and have to stretch their savings longer. But many female retire...
