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Fiduciary Rule FAQs
Oct 27, 2016
Department of Labor releases its first wave of FAQs on the fiduciary rule, baby boomers seek more advice from advisors than millennials...
Disgraced Financial Advisor Apologizes
Oct 25, 2016
Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin, the disgraced financial advisor who lost a number of NFL clients upwards of $43 million, was the subject of a 60 Minutes segment on Sunday. In it, Rubin apologizes apologizes, saying, "If I can go back in time, I wish I’d ...
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A New Way to Evaluate Alternative Funds
Oct 24, 2016
For years, analysts have struggled to evaluate alternative mutual funds, as these funds have had varying degrees of success in delivering diversification and low volatility in a portfolio. That’s why Morningstar is launching a new style box f...
Lawyers: FINRA Still Hasn’t Fixed BrokerCheck
Oct 21, 2016
Flawed. A 2014 report from the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA) criticized FINRA’s BrokerCheck system for not including information available from many state securities agencies, such as the circumstances behind a broker’s ...
AssetMark Launches DOL Readiness Tool
Oct 20, 2016
The clock's ticking. AssetMark launched a new assessment tool on Tuesday that it says will provide advisors with a comprehensive look at how prepared their firm is to comply with the Department of Labor’s pending fiduciary rule. The tool is co...
Hedgeable Releases HNW Robo
Oct 19, 2016
Meet Katana. A common refrain about digital advice technology is that while it may be good for small accounts and new inves...
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The Election & Investing
Oct 17, 2016
Resplendent with controversy and mudslinging, this election cycle has chided investors into increasing their cash holdings...
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Millennials Having a Hard Time Cutting the Financial Cord
Oct 14, 2016
Not totally independent yet. | keira01/iStock/Thinkstock Millennials may strive for financial independence, but as a whole, they've been slow to break out on their own. According to Fidelity Investments' Millennial Money Study, nearly half (47...
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Scared and Confused
Oct 13, 2016
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 handling money, only 26 percent o...
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Financial Advisors Prefer Trump Over Clinton
Oct 12, 2016
Financial advisors are not fans of Hillary. | Copyright Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images Consider the source here, but Breitbart.com is reporting on a Woodbridge Wealth survey that 83 percent of financial advisors prefer Donald Trump over Hillar...
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