Tag: Advice

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney announced that detailed fee and service benchmarking tools have been added to its defined contribution retirement plans.

Wells Fargo launched a Web site aimed at helping women get more comfortable with retirement savings issues.

Fidelity Investments is hosting nation-wide events for the next 30-days, in which it hopes to help near-retirees and those already in retirement switch their focus from savings to...

Securian Retirement has introduced a “Compensation Calculator” for advisers, and a “Fiduciary Focus” guide for advisers to share with plan sponsor clients.  

Charles Schwab and AARP announced a partnership in which Schwab will provide select financial guidance services to AARP members.  

GuidedChoice has launched GuidedSpending 2.0, a major revision of its retirement income advice program.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) anticipated report, “Study on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers,” came out late Friday, and by Monday morning, predictions for the future of the industry...

The "mass affluent," Americans between ages 35-54 years old with $50,000-$250,000 of investable assets, show a noteworthy lack of confidence in financial well-being.

The SPARK Institute released a draft of updates it intends to make regarding information-sharing best practices for 403(b) plans and has asked for comments. 

Somewhere over the course of your academic or professional career, I’m sure you’ve been exposed to any number of group exercises.  

Older investors’ trust in financial services institutions and advisers appears to have dropped to a new low, according to research from Hearts & Wallets.

A recent Charles Schwab survey indicates that men seek financial help less often than women, and also report making more financial mistakes.

Mercer released its list of suggested New Year’s Resolutions for defined contribution sponsors; something a plan adviser may want to pass forward. 

In retirement plans that offer Vanguard Financial Planning Services, participants nearing retirement now have free access to a Vanguard Certified Financial Planner.

Howard Capital Management (HCM) and Folio Institutional have made an arrangement to enable Folio-affiliated advisers and their clients to use HCM’s retirement plan analysis tool.  

If 2010 was not quite the return to “normal” we might have hoped, there was more than enough—both new and old—to draw the attention of plan sponsors.   

People who spend time with a financial professional report saving two to three times more than their peers who do not, according to a study from the ING Retirement Research...

Cynthia Egan, president of T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, and Christine Fahlund, a senior financial planner at T. Rowe, believe the industry should move away from the...

When it comes to their financial situation, workers seem to be taking a longer-term view – and one focused on retirement, according to a new report. 

E*TRADE Securities LLC expanded its retirement planning center, centralizing access to the free educational resources, planning tools, and products, the company announced.