Congress has applied a double standard in which businesses are bailed out from under their debt load while today’s graduates are left saddled with college loans likely to take the average...

For investment advisors to 401(k) plans, it’s a tumultuous time. Some 70 million Americans will hit retirement age over the next two decades, whipping the 401(k) advice business into a...

The American Economic Association has made all issues of the Journal of Economic Perspectives available to the public without charge at aeaweb.org/to/jep. This is an excellent journal that...

Ameriprise, Commonwealth Financial, Lincoln Financial, Securities America and Royal Alliance yesterday settled charges and agreed to a censure by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for selling...

A lot of fee-only advisors think that advisors who accept commission compensation cannot be fiduciaries. That’s not necessarily true. Legal experts say the Securities Exchange Act of 1934...

A Registered Investment Adviser’s ADV Part 2A--also called a "brochure"--is one of ithe most critical documents an an advisory firm creates. It's your public disclosure form, the...

Reuters reported over the weekend that the former chairman of CFP Board, Alan Goldfarb, who resigned in November 2012 after being accused of misrepresenting how he was compensated on a website for...

Three weeks ago, I reported that Ron Rhoades, an expert in the legal underpinnings of the fiduciary standard in the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, had written an entry to his blog that “read...

Edwin P. Morrow, chairman and CEO of the International Association of Registered Financial Consultants and a prominent financial planner for years, recently had his right to use the CFP mark revoked...

The protection of client assets is critical to securities regulation, especially in the wake of Dodd Frank and the need to boost investor confidence.  The bulk of the regulations fall to...

The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted unanimously to propose rules that would reform the way that money market funds operate in order to make them less susceptible to runs that could...

  A day Lawrence Summers, a top economic advisor to two presidents, warned Congress against economic austerity in the U.S., the IMF said in a report that it had underestimated the...

Japan has been running a monetary experiment--shock therapy for its ailing economy. It's highly controversial. While it's similar to the liquidity injected into the Ameircan economy by the Federal...

In a detailed new analysis, two ERISA attorneys make the case that fiduciaries are “responsible for the prudent selection and monitoring of” target date funds (TDFs) within defined...

A local NBC TV station in San Francisco on Tuesday aired a news segment reporting baby-boomer financial advisors—those age 48 and up—are being competitively outdone by younger advisors...

A couple of recent “communication kerfuffles” have me thinking about how I could have handled the situations differently and how lack of good communication can hamper a firm’s growth. By...

  When advisors write for or talk to clients and potential clients, simpler is always better. That sounds pretty simple, but it isn’t.   The world of finance, with all of its...

  You want clients to use the Web to check their accounts and get portfolio reports because it is a better medium for communicating. It’s faster than mailing them this information, less...

News Corporation, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, is poised to launch a new social network that is targeted at readers of WSJ and Barron’s.   For advisors, such a...

Mothers are the sole or primary source of income in a record-setting 40% of households with children under the age of 18, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the U.S. Census...

BlackBerry has issued a security advisory to customers who have purchased the company's Z10 smartphone—the flagship device of BlackBerry's relaunch in February.

"If you’re a normal person shopping for a laptop, you should buy a MacBook Air," says The Verge.

Microsoft Office Mobile for iPhone is now available for iPhone. Should you care?

As the cloud matures, the services being offered are rapidly changing. What happens when the services you use are no longer available? Below are some tips to protect yourself organized by on the...

A4A has a new blogger, Bob McGinty, and he’s a great writing coach. Bob was my editor 30 years ago at The Clearwater Sun, and he taught me a lot about writing. He can do the same for...

Speaking at A4A’s Financial Advisor Webinar Series last Friday, Matt Pierce, a Camtasia Studio training manager at TechSmith, provided an overview of this powerful video editing software...

The most important story of the year on Advisors4Advisors in 2012 was—drum roll, please…. “I've Seen The Future Of Professional Wealth Management Software And Its Name Is inStream...

In a post on September 21, we pointed you to an AdvisorOne article that outlined 11 Congressional committees whose actions would likely be affected by the election.   Today, we'll begin to...