Back in 2013, the Department of Labor issued guidelines for retirement plan fiduciaries around implementing customized target-date funds, as opposed to the off-the-shelf variety...

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Ponzi scheme? Aequitas Capital Management, the Lake Oswego, Ore.-based alternative investments firm that made a bad bet on student loans, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for concealing its “rapidly deteriorating finan...

Don't bite. | Copyright Mario Tama, Getty Images The Zika virus is the latest health crisis to strike, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a public health alert for travel to places where the virus is spreading. B...

Clients are very concerned about the financial ramifications of getting Alzheimer’s—they’re just not doing anything about it. A recent survey performed by WebMD entitled “Insight Into Alzheimer’s Attitudes and Behaviors” polled 4,200 site user...

Not all target-date funds are the same, a point the Department of Labor has made in its most recent guidance to plan fiduciaries. One item the DOL stresses is whether a target date fund’s glide path, or the point at which it reaches its...

Proactive planning can create very compelling results