With a new year around the corner, financial advisors may want to think about tweaking their business models. Could $250 be the new $2,500? Maybe, according to one consumer financial trends expert. At the very least, the idea is worth exploring...
Financial advisors are paid to plan a family's long-term future, but when couples disagree about their plans – for example, what to leave to or withhold from heirs, how to divide assets in a marital split -- what then?...
Amy Florian was having dinner one evening at the home of a financial advisor. During the course of conversation, the advisor mentioned that he didn't always know what to say to clients who had just suffered the loss of a loved one...
A look-see into the future direction of the voluntary market reveals that financial advisors and brokers had best prepare to become facilitators and consultants as more voluntary benefits products are sold through the exchanges...
A new survey by the U.S. tax and consulting company McGladrey finds there's still plenty of growth potential for advisors serving the retirement plan market, particularly around clarifying retirement plan costs...
A large fraction of the United States' uninsured are young, men who are either working or have someone in the family working, white or Hispanic, officials say...
The Obamacare website HealthCare.gov handled 83,000 concurrent users before the deadline of Christmas Eve -- as promised, U.S. government officials say...
Confusion about Affordable Care Act deadlines is rampant, but a U.S. expert says the big deadline is March 31, the day all should have health insurance...
George lives by himself. And he likes living by himself. But this man, who is in his 80s, was recently admitted to a rehab center because he had problems with his feet due to diabetes caused in part by his inability to properly care for himself. Kevin McClarren is helping to make sure that doesn't happen again...
The bags are packed; the car is too. Along with mapping the route, Allstate recommends prepping the car so travelers don't end up stranded on the side of the road...
Every Thanksgiving since 1984, independent financial advisor Terry Hannon of Wheaton, Ill., has mailed her clients a holiday letter that thanks them for their business and explains how she made donations to charities in their names...
Sponsors of a proposal to delay premium increases for some federal flood insurance policyholders expect a Senate vote on the legislation next month and vow to spend the holiday recess working to build support for it...
Unprepared: The World Braces For Retirement Crisis
