In the view of some who follow the philanthropy business, financial advisors could have one of two reactions to the announcement by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates that they have rounded up 40 billionaires who have agreed to give away most of their...

It’s not surprising that most clients who are eligible to collect Social Security retirement benefits are interested in initiating the income stream as soon as possible (even if doing so is an admittance that they are officially “old”). But if...

New regulation under ERISA section 408(b)(2) is expected to be released in the fall of 2010 and take effect in 2011. One key consequence of these regulations is level pricing for financial advisers (FAs) who provide services to 401(k) plans.

It’s the unanswerable question every investor eyeing retirement, and his financial advisor, seek an answer to—How many years do I have to live? New genetic research may narrow the variety of possible answers to that question...

It can be difficult on a personal level to watch a client, whom you may have known for years, begin to lose his mental capacity. But if that client is the settlor of a revocable trust of which you are a trustee, the settlor's incompetence can...

For decades, the United States had a top marginal tax rate as high as 50, 70 and even 90 percent.1 As a matter of fact, for the past 50 years there have only been five years (1988 to 1992) when the top marginal tax rate was less than the current...