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The Roth IRA has been popular for more than a decade, but its workplace counterpart—the Roth(k)—has been slower to take off. Many employers held back until Congress clarified their future with the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) by removing a...
Migration to the independent financial advisor model—independent b/ds and RIAs—is likely to continue unabated in 2011, a Fidelity Investments survey about advisor and broker sentiment released today suggests.
As assets continue to flow to alternatives in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, many advisors are launching their own alternatives strategies to meet that demand. Advisors say this allows them to offer clients alternatives with...
After their bang-up performance in 2008, everyone is talking about managed futures. They can make great diversifiers in some portfolios, but be sure to do your homework. They're opaque, often highly leveraged, and can be expensive.
Wealth managers don’t have to be experts when it comes to philanthropy, but they do need to be empathetic and knowledgeable about charitable giving, according to industry leaders who will be addressing the annual conference of the...
Worried that interest rates could rise for years to come, some investors have been dumping their bonds. But the extreme bears are probably overreacting. Under most scenarios, bonds will deliver modestly positive returns in coming years. What sort...
Ninth Circuit upholds late payment penalties and interest assessed against estate that filed incomplete Form 4768 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld penalties and interest assessed against an estate that filed an incomplete...
Ninth Circuit upholds late payment penalties and interest assessed against estate that filed incomplete Form 4768 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld penalties and interest assessed against an estate that filed an incomplete...
A client who has a personally owned life insurance policy comes to you. You convince her to either sell or gift the policy to an irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT). You need to get the value of the policy, so you call the insurance company...
