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More than a third of affluent investors are considering moving assets away from their primary institution, and 25 percent say they'll consider taking assets from their current advisor.

In recent years I've reported on some of the hardest hit markets in the United States, from real estate to health insurance to retirement plans. In such time, I've seen cyclical paths to recovery, and I've always wondered where there's logic in feeding one crisis with another one.

What do Glenn Beck and the brokerage industry have in common? America's lightening rod accidentally exposes why we need a fiduciary standard.

No matter how you measure it, the employee benefits and retirement industries involve trillions of dollars. That's more than the GDP of Farmville.

More than half of retirees responding to a LIMRA survey say changes to Medicare, Social Security programs and increased taxes will affect their ability to afford retirement.

A new Northern Trust survey finds institutional investment managers increasingly see inflation as likely in the near future, with oil prices and market volatility also rising over the next six months.