When RIA regulators arrived at Safe Harbor Financial Advisors’ offices in May for an inspection, the Virginia state examiners had…
States are charging into the fiduciary pool, with Nevada passing a fiduciary standard for any advisors licensed to do business in the state. Others are seeking fiduciary language via other means.
Financial advisors recruited to independent broker-dealers (IBD) are as likely to come from the insurance distribution channel as they are from big wirehouses, new research found.
A new Morningstar tool is designed to help investment management professionals “gain a clearer picture of business risk and portfolio suitability across an entire book of business.” In short, a balance between too much and too little risk.
Investment advisors and financial advisors who leave or break away from their captive channel to start new in the independent channel is lower than speculated. The Department of Labor fiduciary rule might move the number northward.
The latest Fed rate hike, announced in a statement after a policy meeting, comes as the U.S. economy is growing only sluggishly. Further slow rate hikes are expected going forward.
Mass Mutual Life finished as the top seller of whole life insurance in the first quarter 2017 in a new report, repeating the top spot it held for all of 2016.
The Nasdaq composite and S&P 500 rallied immediately after the French voted for their next president and advisors remain optimistic…
Shouldn’t the real question be how the new rule impacts the ordinary investor?
Some 82 percent of S&P 500 Index companies published a sustainability or corporate responsibility report last year, according to new…
Highlights for universal life in the first quarter included Prudential ranking as the No. 1 insurer overall for universal life sales, with a market share of 8.4 percent.
If the GOP doesn’t get its border tax proposal, it will be looking for revenue, and retirement plan incentives could be in the crosshairs.
Technology has made the traditional camera obsolete, and financial advisors could be the next to find themselves discarded in the wake of new technology, according to a speaker at an Insured Retirement Institute conference.
The shorter surrender periods and no surrender charges are the result of annuity companies offering fee-based financial advisors new options that coincide with the dawn of the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule.
A panel discussion at an industry conference looked at what could be next for the fiduciary rule.
New studies show more women taking on the role of financial breadwinner. Data also shows women unprepared to inherit wealth or pass their own wealth on to loved ones. An opportunity for advisors?
The Department of Labor fiduciary rule begins taking effect at 11:59 tonight. That means acting as a fiduciary, making no misleading statements and accepting only “reasonable compensation.”
The Financial CHOICE Act contains language that would kill the Department of Labor fiduciary rule.
Firms large and small make their final moves to get into compliance with the Department of Labor fiduciary rule, which begins taking effect at 11:59 p.m. Friday. What comes next?
