(Bloomberg) -- Divorce in the U.S. surged in the 1970s and 1980s as the baby boomers reached adulthood. As they enter retirement, they’re still splitting up, and it’s having a disproportionate effect on women...

Screening for risk. | Copyright Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commission examines only 10 percent of investment advisors per year, but that doesn’t mean the other 90 percent are not reviewed. “If a fund holds the s...

(Bloomberg) -- Consumers have lodged countless complaints about how Wells Fargo & Co. employees opened sham accounts in their name. Recently, a Wells Fargo & Co. employee pointed her finger at the company for a different kind of...

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...

To paraphrase Isaac Newton, “A 401(k) account at rest tends to stay at rest.” For example, a 30-year-old plan participant might be 100 percent invested in the plan’s money market fund because that’s what she chose when she...

PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts major changes coming to the financial services industry by 2020, especially in the makeup of a firm’s workforce and how it is recruited, organized and compensated. With automation replacing the bulk of transact...

Switch your crystal ball to “conservative” when completing financial plans...

A great deal of ink has been spilled and many hands wrung in the past few years over an impending “retirement crisis,” the belief that boomers will discover they have not saved enough to support themselves in retirement. ...