The independent workforce continues to grow and mature, even as the economy continues to rebound and the unemployment rate declines, according to MBO Partners.

In states with percent-of-charge-based fee regulations, hospital outpatient payments per surgical episode were 37 percent to 151 percent higher than the median of the study states with fixed-amount fee schedules.

As we present this Advisors Who Serve(d) slideshow, we are grateful not only to all the advisors who serve and have served but to all the benefits managers and brokers who serve and have served.

Islamic investors in the U.S. who are approaching retirement are no less in need of retirement savings and planning than their fellow Americans.