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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...
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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 ...
Digital investment advisors, the so-called “robo-advisors,” were built to be low cost and highly scalable to attract millennial investors and disrupt the financial services industry. But their survival as standalone companies depends...
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Maybe actively managed funds underperform their passive counterparts not because of stock selection, but because most active fund managers just charge too much. John Rekenthaler at Morningstar did a ...
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The U.S. residential real estate market is the place for investors to be right now, according to the recently released Savills World Residential Investability Ranking...