The latest numbers on the U.S. retirement crisis are in, and they point to a massive opportunity for financial planners if they can meet the challenge of providing unbiased retirement advice in a new fiduciary world...

Defined benefit (DB) plans’ decline among private companies has been well documented, in part because sponsors wanted to move away from carrying a liability they may not be able to meet. “A lot of times the management of the defined...

The $3.7 trillion municipal market is contending with an new bout of unprecedented financial distress by governments struggling to cover their debts

A little help goes a long way. | bunditinay/iStock/Thinkstock There are many business coaches out there, promising advisors help in growing their practice and bringing in more money. But do these services actually work? About two in 10 financi...

A new U.S. rule protecting retirement funds from commission-paid brokers could be good for roboadvisers, a fast-growing sector that manages money with algorithms who may collect new clients fired by other firms because their accounts are too small...

After taking a few days to digest the 1,000-page Department of Labor fiduciary rule, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)—perhaps the biggest opponent of the rule—admitted that the DOL did address some of...

The Department of Labor’s final fiduciary rule, released Wednesday, differed enough from the proposed version that the DOL felt compelled to publish a lengthy chart detailing where the two diverged...

The Department of Labor released the final version of the fiduciary rule on Wednesday, and though it was more lenient than many expected, wealth management technology vendors see the rule as a catalyst for widespread adoption...

The financial industry is in a tizzy as the Department of Labor released the long-anticipated final version of the new rules addressing conflicts of interest in retirement advice earlier today. Weighing in at over 1,000 pages, the collected...

Everyone from legislators to individual financial advisors to concerned investors weighed in on the final Department of Labor fiduciary rule, which was released today. ...