Financial advisors tend to be better off than their parents, making about 8 percent more than them in adulthood, according to a recent analysis by NPR.
The news outlet’s “Planet Money” blog looked at government data for the same group of people ...
The vast majority, 60 percent, of advisors manages at least one retirement plan. Yet 91 percent of registered investment advisors are only “accommodating,” rather than actively growing, that segment of the business, according to a new...
Retirement confidence is rebounding after a seven-year decline, with 18 percent of workers now very confident in their financial security in retirement, up from 13 percent in 2013, according to a new survey the Employee Benefit Research Institute...
Earning a CFP designation, while not a necessity, seems a commonplace task for students graduating with a financial planning degree. Yet the cost of the exam can be prohibitive for many.
The CFP Board announced Thursday it’s getting more involved in expanding the intellectual heft of the advisory profession, even as it trims down its time-intensive examination process...
Matthew Green, an 18th century British poet, once reflected upon a personal ethos that today’s equity investors might do well to embrace: “Thus, I steer my bark, and sail on even keel, with gentle gale.”
The tempest roiling the market nowadays c...
