Financial advisers and insurance agents are hoping a series of recent court rulings and Department of Labor actions that ...

Fearing that brokers and insurance groups may convince members of the committee to support doing a study only of broker-adviser harmonization, the groups held a telephone press conference today in ...

Consumer confusion and disinformation surrounding the differences between Broker Dealers and Registered Investment Advisors has peaked and customers are often misled about the conflicting roles and ...

As the Labor Department and lobbyists wrangle over who can provide advice to retirement plan participants, the marketplace has come up with an increasingly popular solution that satisfies current and ...

A new survey of financial professionals shows surprising and almost uniform support for the Department of Labor’s Retirement Security Rule that would require insurance brokers who provide retirement ...

Will a broader application of the fiduciary standard be accompanied by higher insurance costs? Some broker/dealers are bracing for the possibility. The proposed financial overhaul legislation before ...

In negotiation over Wall Street reform, Senator Tim Johnson (D., S.D.) accepted a final counter-offer from the House Thursday afternoon that would give the SEC rulemaking authority to extend the ...

The Labor Department’s new retirement-savings rule is set to take effect June 9. What happens after that is the subject of myriad questions from both consumers and wealth-management firms. While the ...