Tag: Fiduciary adviser

It’s a phenomenon unique to the retirement planning advice industry that even those participants who make good investment decisions often don’t know they’re making good decisions.

Alliance Benefit Group (ABG), a network of 14 regional consulting and financial services firms, launched the 401(k) Choice platform for broker/dealers and financial advisers working with retirement plans.

Standard Retirement Services Inc., known as The Standard, reached a partnership agreement with M Financial Group for the development and distribution of qualified retirement plan services.

The Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS) from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) has consistently found a relationship between the level of participants’ debt and retirement confidence.

The Department of Labor is presenting the “Getting It Right – Know Your Fiduciary Responsibilities” webcast series.

A group of 26 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, known as the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, threw its support behind expanded fiduciary rules pending from the Department...

The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking public comments about a proposed revision to fee disclosure rules that would simplify the way fee data is presented to some...

Peggy Whitmore joined CAPTRUST Financial Advisors, which provides independent investment management services, as a vice president and financial adviser.

A federal appellate court found a registered investment adviser for two pension plans was not a fiduciary for those plans.

Registered independent adviser and broker/dealer firm United Planners Financial Services says it is enacting staffing and organizational changes to better serve its adviser partners.

BOK Financial Corporation says it has entered into an agreement to acquire MBM Advisors, a SEC-registered investment advisory firm specializing in retirement and pension plan services.

Richard P. Slaughter Associates 401(k) Services is now known as RPS Retirement Plan Advisors, a change the firm hopes will better reflect its focus on holistic advice and...

3(38) advisers are not the answer to America's retirement savings crisis.

CEFEX designations are gaining more widespread adoption, and some say the certification process yields valuable insights about their own firms.

Retirement specialist advisers are more successful than other consulting segments at earning high client satisfaction ratings and increasing key retirement readiness metrics, new research shows.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says it has launched a previously announced initiative to audit registered investment advisers (RIAs) that have never been examined.

It’s not just large pension funds that have concerns over rising interest rates and their impact on portfolio strategies—defined contribution plan advisers are apprehensive, too.

Fidelity Financial Advisor Solutions, a unit of Fidelity Investments that provides mutual funds and other investment services, released an interactive calculator that helps financial professionals build fixed-income portfolios.

Members of Generation X, those born between the early 1960s and the mid-1980s, have seen their retirement readiness degrade since the start of the Great Recession.

Fiduciary Investment Advisors (FIA) opened a new office in Kennebunk, Maine.