Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins told senators Thursday that "it's time to consider alternatives" beyond wealth and income for determining who qualifies as an accredited ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday that it has barred Kenneth A. Welsh, a former Wells Fargo broker and investment advisor who was sent to prison for fraud in July.

Total U.S. individual annuity sales increased 12%, year over year, to $102 billion, according to new issuer survey data from LIMRA. Sales for the year increased 6%, to $461 billion. What it means: ...

The Save for Success Act allows distributions from qualified tuition programs to be used for qualified housing expenses.

"Our clients have achieved an organic asset growth rate nearly 10% higher than their peers," Wolfsen said. "They are also leading 75% of wealth management M&A, by assets, and are consistently pushing ...

RILAs: Equitable created the market for modern RILA contracts, which are registered as securities, can link the crediting rate to the performance of one or more investment indexes, can expose the ...

The U.S. House passed a bill Monday that could help especially big or important life insurance and annuity issuers fend off Federal Reserve Board supervision. Lawmakers agreed by a voice vote to send ...

McKinsey's report provides a forward-looking perspective on how this confluence of trends will affect the industry in the years ahead. It says wealth management firms must reimagine not only how they ...

The 81-year-old plaintiff at the center of a $35 million elder fraud suit against Northern Trust is asking the court to expedite the suit due to her age and declining health.

The upheaval in the Medicare Advantage market is chasing one insurance company out of the market, frustrating another, helping a third increase sales of a Medicare Advantage plan alternative, and ...

The number of stocks outperforming the market should continue to expand, albeit in a choppy manner, according to Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders, who also expects ...

Many in this cohort are relocating for job opportunities, preferable lifestyles, family or other considerations.