The fees associated with 401(k) plans are falling, according to a new study by BrightScope Inc. and the Investment Company Institute. Looking at plans that existed from 2009 to 2012, the total costs decreased on average by around 10 basis points...

Nadore/iStock/Thinkstock The sandwich generation, or Generation X, is not a focus for top players in the financial services industry, according to a recent Weber Shandwick report. The public relations firm found that only half of the top U.S...

Your clients probably think they know more about how their retirement plan works under the hood than they really do.

Copyright Mario Tama, Getty Images Are compensation cuts coming to Merrill Lynch advisors in 2015? AdvisorHUB (rumors) seems to think so. According to a rumor circulating on the site, the cuts are hitting payouts, not deferred compensation...

To meet growing demand for retirement plan services, HighTower announced Wednesday that it integrated Envestnet Retirement Solutions (ERS) into its technology platform...

The dramatic shift by retirement savers to passive investing means financial advisors will spend less time in the future picking stocks, and that leads to questions about new ways to add value...

If you have clients struggling to meet retirement goals, working longer is an attractive way to change the math. Extra years of work open the door to higher monthly Social Security benefits via delayed filing, additional retirement contributions ...

The aggregation rule will only apply to distributions from different IRAs if each of the distributions occurs after 2014

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You’ve heard of robo-advisors, but what about robo-PR agents? Introducing Finsource, the first fully automated public relations platform for financial advisors and wealth managers. For $99 per month, Finsource will create press releases, send t...