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Advisors and assets continue to migrate from the investment sales model of Wall Street wirehouses to the fiduciary model of fee-based RIAs.
When you switch jobs or retire, you face a critical choice. Here are the pros and cons of rolling over your retirement plan.
Whether retirees' nest eggs are full, emptied or never feathered, three simple steps can put some wind beneath financial wings late in life.
Consumers who use a financial advisor as their intermediary can avoid the most common estate-planning and last will and testament errors.
The years just before leaving work are critical in ensuring a secure retirement, so avoid these missteps many 50- and 60-somethings make.
New fee-only advisors will find higher costs and more competition, but industry pioneers share tips on succeeding in this growing business.
The competitiveness of your local economy and quality of its real estate market impact your wealth and your investment portfolio.
Top wealth management firms don't see robo-advisors as immediate threats but say they could eventually have a major impact on the market.
After a failed run for political office broke the bank, a middle-aged couple turns to an advisor to help them get back on track.
Intense compounding of leverage-fueled return rates on "safe" hard assets led many Gen Xers into part-time landlord gigs that then failed.
Here’s what your financial advisor won’t tell you — and the questions you should be asking, says portfolio manager James Sanford.
Could you be the next worst-case-investor scenario? If you think that’s impossible, you’re probably a step closer to making the worst come true.
Investors gravitate toward RIAs, who have shifted wealth management from sales to planning and from product commissions to fiduciary fees.
On the surface, robo-advisors look like a disruptive force. But in time we may consider them an evolution of the traditional advice model.
Advisors are starting to specialize in niche markets and look to less-wealthy clients as competition for high-net-worth customers increases.
The CNBC Digital editorial team presents its inaugural list of the Top 100 Fee-Only Wealth Management Firms in the U.S., compiled with Meridian-IQ.
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About 40% of financial advisors plan to retire in the next 10 years. College financial planning programs are hoping they can help fill those seats.
The traditional S&P 500 index fund may not work for you if you want to invest with environmental or social causes in mind. But themed index funds might be worth a second look.
With premiums skyrocketing on insurance policies designed to cover long-term-care costs, financial advisors are turning to a variety of other options.
Top health care investors, CEOs and technologists explore the innovations that will drive better outcomes, financially and clinically.
Rising Risks looks at the real estate impact of rising tides and increasingly extreme weather.
Executives reflect on their own “Make or Break” moments, sharing how they have made key decisions, who they turn to for advice and what they would have done differently.
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