Beginning almost 20 years ago, an obscure advisor in El Cajon, Calif., published a series of papers defining sustainable withdrawal rates from retirement portfolios. Based on a historical ...

As the head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners for almost 30 years, one of the most common situations I’ve been asked to address is about clients with a heavily ...

Time, money and competition put pressure on RIA owners to be decisive, but taking action can be hard without assurances of success, and it can be reckless to act on gut instinct. To compete, advisors ...

For a profession that is half a century old, the financial advice business is still troubled by certain frustrations. Near the top of that list is the fact that, unlike medicine and law, the ...

CFPs who sell annuities are subject to a tougher fiduciary standard, as well as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) suitability model regulation, the CFP Board said in new guide ...

According to experts, one of the main selling points for annuities is that they can provide a sort of personal pension that cannot be outlived. No other investment can make that claim. Yet the ...

Rob Granieri took to the dance floor with long hair flowing from his fedora, shiny jacket glinting and a boutonnière bursting with color. The wealthy recluse showed off his moves after platters of ...

The job outlook for personal financial advisors is promising. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of advisory jobs is projected to grow 13% from 2022 to 2032, far outpacing the 3% ...

Andre El-Baba never imagined an investment fund could trap him. A lifelong property manager from Vancouver, he’d spent decades navigating real estate markets and thought he understood risk. So when he ...

The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced the Securities and Exchange Commission’s power to recover illegal profits in a case that centered on one of the agency’s most potent enforcement tools. The justices ...

Female advisors still make up somewhere around only a quarter of the financial advice industry, according to various sources like AdvizorPro and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. And that’s ...