The Financial Planning Association’s board of directors elected Houston-based advisor Shannon Pike to serve as the organization’s next president-elect and three additional board members during its annual conference in Boston. Shannon Pike, new...

Gone sailing. Principal Financial Group may be retiring Eddie, the firm’s advertising mascot for the past 10 years, but the “every man” cartoon character should be able to enjoy his golden years thanks to the financial planning advice he a...

Make the call. Financial Engines announced Wednesday that 401(k) plan participants can now call a Financial Engines advisor for no additional charge, regardless of whether or not they use the company’s investment advisory services. Similar...

Can your clients be happy with your current firm even if you aren’t? Probably not for long. 

Yield. Consumers can’t always trust the advice they get from Social Security, Money magazine’s Philip Moeller reports. Many investors utilize the “start-stop-start” method when taking their benefits, which basically equates to claiming Soc...

Savage capitalism? | Copyright Franco Origlia, Getty Images Pope Francis is expected to visit New York next week, the very heart of the financial world and home to Wall Street financial services firms. But even though the Pope has repeated...

Wall Street’s regulatory watchdog, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, is off to a slow start in the amount of fines and restitution ordered from broker/dealers and financial firms during the first six months of 2015...

As part of our #FiduciaryFriday series this month, we asked the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard's Knut Rostad to provide his thoughts on where the Securities and Exchange Commission's fiduciary efforts stand. Rostad finds there is a...

Barry Ritholtz and Josh Brown The longer clients stay with Ritholtz Wealth Management, the less they will pay. The 2-year-old firm, run by Barry Ritholtz and Josh Brown, announced this week that they were implementing a policy of lowering ...