(Bloomberg) -- LPL Financial Holdings Inc., Primerica Inc. and other firms that manage money for individual investors surged after new standards to protect savers from conflicted investment advice appeared weaker than expected...

Advisors are not fazed by the impending Department of Labor fiduciary rule, expected to come out today. Sixty-one percent of advisors said they expect little to no impact on their business if the DOL rule passes, according to Russell Investme...

The Department of Labor today released its final rule requiring advisors overseeing retirement accounts to act under a fiduciary standard to put their clients’ interests ahead of their own...

Married owners guaranteed debt of an IRA-owned corporation 

Applying a fiduciary standard means the broker must put his customer's interests ahead of his own.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat who advocates for strong financial regulation, asked U.S. securities regulators on Thursday to investigate comments made by major insurance companies about a forthcoming federal rule on retirement...

Taxpayers weren’t entitled to refund of federal income taxes

The stretch IRA is under siege...

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