(Bloomberg View) -- Last week, yet another slew of private retirement plan managers became the target of class-action lawsuits. This time it was a bunch of universities: Yale University, New York University, the Massachusetts Institute of...
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The CFP Board debuted its Center for Financial Planning late last year with the goal of furthering the development of the advisory profession. The Center’s latest effort is a series of books, to be published by Joh...
Financially speaking, millennials have more in common with the Silent Generation than they do with their baby boomer parents or grandparents. According to TD Ameritrade’s Millennials and Money Survey, growing up during the recession has taugh...
(Bloomberg) -- Young workers today probably can't even think about retiring for 40 or 50 years. Longer lives and the prospect of weaker investment returns mean millennials will probably have to save more money, over a longer period of...
(Bloomberg) -- College has gotten so expensive that it's weighing on even the parents of third-graders, threatening to leave them too debt-saddled to retire...
(Bloomberg View) -- Imagine an entire enterprise set on course for disaster, driven by the owner’s arrogant pursuit of profit. The members of the management team, from the CEO on down, know better but fail to resist or are ignored. The...
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Investors were net sellers of equities in July, according to TD Ameritrade’s Investor Movement Index. The broker/dealer subsidiary of TD Ameritrade Holding said the selling, as well as lower volatility in widely held names (l...
For a long time, reverse mortgages were viewed by most clients and advisors as an expensive, complex and risky tool that put homeowners in danger of “losing the house.” They were often peddled on TV during cut-rate advertising...
In recent years a major focus for employers has been pension risk management. For those companies that sponsor a traditional pension plan, one of the most common strategies is offering a “lump sum window” to terminated employees who...
