Ponzi scheme? Aequitas Capital Management, the Lake Oswego, Ore.-based alternative investments firm that made a bad bet on student loans, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for concealing its “rapidly deteriorating financial...

Don't bite. | Copyright Mario Tama, Getty Images The Zika virus is the latest health crisis to strike, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a public health alert for travel to places where the virus is spreading. But t...

Clients are very concerned about the financial ramifications of getting Alzheimer’s—they’re just not doing anything about it. A recent survey performed by WebMD entitled “Insight Into Alzheimer’s Attitudes and Behaviors” polled 4,200 site user...

Not all target-date funds are the same, a point the Department of Labor has made in its most recent guidance to plan fiduciaries. One item the DOL stresses is whether a target date fund’s glide path, or the point at which it reaches its...

Proactive planning can create very compelling results

Gerry Desmond, a retirement plan consultant with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., says that whenever it seems fees for retirement plan consultants have reached a “new bottom,” they go lower...

Be careful. It’s Tax Relief Week at Morningstar.com, and the fund research group is running a series of in-depth articles on savvy tax-saving strategies for investors—and a good reminder for advisors as well. The lineup recently included Mornings...

Cash and carry. | Purestock/Thinkstock Some ETFs deliver more than the return of their underlying index, even after fees are taken into account, writes Tom Lydon of ETFTrends.com. Where does the extra cash come from? ETFs can lend out as much ...

Nothing can stop them now. | Di Okeefe/Hemera/Thinkstock Markets may be on a downward slide, but it’s not enough to force baby boomers to postpone their retirement plans. January was the worst on record for U.S. stocks since 2009 and February ...