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Investment Advisor March 2007 Melanie Waddell	Leading the Way This year is shaping up into one in which advisors will have to stay compliant with a plethora of retirement planning rules and regs if they expect to stay firmly rooted in the retirement planning arena -- and doing what's best for their clients.
Investment Advisor February 2007 Savita Iyer	Taking Advantage of the Pension Protection Act Financial advisors need to understand fully what the Pension Protection Act means and how it pertains to their business.
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Investment Advisor February 2007 Melanie Waddell	Clear Road Ahead Commonwealth's retirement platform, Preferred Portfolio Services Retirement Solutions, keeps financial advisors compliant with ERISA and PPA.
On Wall Street September 1, 2012 Elizabeth Wine	Financial Advisors Turn to the 401(k) Market for More Business Advisors look to 401(k) plans as fertile ground for business.
Financial Planning January 5, 2008 Elizabeth O'Brien	The New Fiduciaries LPL and Fiduciary360 educate advisors on retirement consulting in the Pension Protection Act of 2006 era.
Financial Advisor May 2007 Ken Ziesenheim	Diamonds In The Rough The new Pension Protection Act offers opportunities for financial advisors, if you know where to dig.
Financial Advisor December 2008 Janet Aschkenasy	Who Discloses What? New regulations clarify the duties of qualified retirement plan fiduciaries and advisors.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: Fiduciary Worries The Department of Labor is set to rule that brokers working with retirement accounts meet a fiduciary standard.
On Wall Street November 1, 2010 Gallant & Schneider	Navigating The Retirement Business The demand for retirement income support will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years as the aging of the baby boom generation is inevitable.
Registered Rep. July 8, 2010 Michael Stillman	For 401k Advisors, Comp Models Must Change In the short-term, financial advisors will need to adjust their 401(k) fee arrangements. For the long-term, registered reps may find it necessary to work with -- or become -- registered investment advisors.
Financial Advisor May 2012 Michael J. Mcdermott	Day Of Reckoning Fee-based advisors should benefit when 401(k) participants soon find out the cost of their plans.
Registered Rep. June 2, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Compensation Survey 2015: The Slowly Disappearing Commission Moving from a commission-based business to one based on fees, advocates argue, removes conflicts and puts advisors on the same side of the table as their clients.
Financial Planning November 1, 2010 Trone & Harvey	The New Rules of the Road The following four regulatory reforms will likely have the most impact on the financial services industry over the next 24 months. Here's a short synopsis of what they will require.
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Jack W. Callahan	Embrace Change Advisors have to adapt their practices to accommodate retiring clients.
Investment Advisor September 2009 Lewis Schiff	The Affluentialist: Building Retirement Portfolios Now Few advisors use a cookie cutter approach to retirement income support.
Investment Advisor March 2010 James J. Green	Redefining for Retirement There's a "different mindset" that advisors need to have when focusing on the distribution phase of a client's life.
Investment Advisor October 2008 Melanie Waddell	DOL Floats Advice Proposals The Department of Labor recently announced two proposed rules under the Pension Protection Act designed to make investment advice more accessible for millions of Americans in 401(k)-type plans and individual retirement accounts.
Investment Advisor January 2008	The Compensation Food Chain Performance-based compensation is the future of investment advisor compensation.
Investment Advisor September 2007 Kara P. Stapleton	Changes Ahead for 403(b)s Retirement plan advisors, distributors, and providers are finding themselves responding on the fly to the trends shaping the 403(b) and 457 markets. New regulations will add paperwork and confusion say critics.
Investment Advisor February 2009 Angela Herbers	Advisor, Heal Thyself Good advice to advisors these days is that they revise their own financial plans.
Investment Advisor January 2007 Savita Iyer	DC Advisor-Sponsor Matchmaker The relative lack of corporate advisors is a result of inertia on the part of plan sponsors; despite pronouncing themselves dissatisfied with their retirement plans, plan sponsors do not take the easy step of finding a new advisor.
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Kathy Gevlin	Advisor Pulse The happiest financial advisors really do put their clients first, asserts the first study of advisor satisfaction.
Financial Planning December 1, 2010 Trone & Harvey	Get Smart When the U.S. Department of Labor speaks, we should listen, whether we work with qualified retirement plans or not. The DOL made several announcements in October that are going to be significant game changers for the financial services industry.
On Wall Street March 1, 2010 Bo Bohanan	Do You Really Want To Be A 401(k) Consultant? It is fairly easy to spot the advantages and opportunities of working in this marketplace. But, not all of the pitfalls are as evident.
On Wall Street September 1, 2010 Aarti N. Maharaj	Five Questions With Amy Strong Joining Financial Research Corp. as a research analyst in 2007, she examines the state of the industry and marketing effectiveness.
Registered Rep. March 2, 2010 John Aidan Byrne	New Rules For 401k Advice The White House has proposed rules that require advisors to either use independent computer models that spit out advice, or else avoid steering workers into funds to which they are tied or that pay them a fee based on their recommendation.
Registered Rep. April 28, 2015 David Armstrong	Editor's Letter: May 2015 It's worth looking at the so-far relatively muted response of the industry to the Department of Labor's second go around in proposing new fiduciary regulations for financial advisors to retirement accounts.
Registered Rep. September 30, 2009 David A. Geracioti	Do Retail Financial Advisors Have an "Unhealthy Focus?" The Financial Times suggests the way financial products and services are sold need to be completely overhauled.
Financial Planning April 1, 2012 Donna Mitchell	The BIG Fix Familiar as 401(k)s are, planners love to hate them, and they'll readily cite long lists of faults with the plans themselves, as well as the way the $2.8 trillion 401(k) industry operates.
Investment Advisor January 2010 Melanie Waddell	Retirement Planning: Retirement Income a Riddle Advisors are still searching for best method to deliver retirement income.
Registered Rep. July 24, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	Fee Disclosure - Can You Handle the Truth? New federal rules are forcing advisors to spell out what they're charging for running 401(k) plans and what their clients are getting for the money. It could lead to some difficult conversations.
Financial Advisor November 2012 Karen DeMasters	DOL Fiduciary Regulations May Be Revived U.S. Department of Labor regulations that would extend the fiduciary standard to a larger group of people advising on retirement plans are on hold for now, but they may not be dead, according to those following the fate of the proposals.
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Marion Asnes	Envestnet's Fiduciary Opportunity Bill Crager, president of Envestnet, is not going to wait for Washington to figure out the fate of the fiduciary standard. The way he sees it, the market has already spoken.
On Wall Street July 1, 2010 Frances A. McMorris	Confusion Reigns Among Wirehouse Advisors On The Fiduciary Issue With all the frenzy over the call for a universal fiduciary standard for all financial and investment advisors, it appears that those in the wirehouses don't really understand the debate.
Investment Advisor March 2008 Melanie Waddell	Figuring Out Fiduciary What, exactly, does fiduciary advisor mean? How can an advisor know for sure if he's fulfilling his fiduciary obligations? Are there any real guidelines?
Registered Rep. April 1, 2007	Confronting the F Word Experts suggest that reps who ultimately become fiduciaries will require additional training. Simply holding various series licenses is probably not going to cut it. There are now more options than just a few years ago.
On Wall Street August 1, 2012 E. Thomas Foster Jr.	Reviewing Retirement Plans Can Reduce Risk In the retirement plans marketplace financial advisors can provide tremendous value for business owners by reviewing the inner workings of 401(k)s and other defined contribution retirement plans for potential risks and overall effectiveness.
Investment Advisor July 2010 David DeVoe	Options, Options, Options Big banks used to be the main acquirers of advisory firms, but in the past few years, the consolidators and bigger advisors have recognized the opportunity as well.
Registered Rep. December 7, 2011 Philip Palaveev	The Say on Pay: Registered Rep.'s 2011 Compensation Survey Financial advisors continue to expand their practices, work with more clients and receive ample compensation for their efforts.
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Financial Planning August 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad	Advisor Pulse If a new survey is to be believed, advisors who help their clients with retirement planning -- and that's most of you -- will soon face a difficult choice: Change the way you service clients or watch your profits shrink.
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz	Are the Times Changing? A new study shows that 75% of advisors say they provide a written plan for their clients' retirement planning. Read on to see more specifically what they are doing.
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Registered Rep. May 20, 2011 Diana Britton	Fee-Only FAs Positioned Well to Capture Retirement Plan Assets Fee-only financial advisors are well-positioned to capture retirement plan clients because of their fee transparency and their business model's alignment with ERISA.
Financial Planning February 1, 2011 Donald B. Trone	12 Steps to the Future If you have never prepared a checklist to evaluate your practice, 2011 is the time to start. You'll need to know your strengths and weaknesses as advisors in what promises to be an interesting year.
Financial Planning January 5, 2008 John J. Bowen Jr.	Better Than Average Making a New Year's resolution to improve your practice? A new survey lets you benchmark your performance against the broader advisory community.