• Wealth Adviser Daily Briefing: Fiduciary Consequences, J.P. Morgan’s Shuffle

    WSJ Wealth Adviser highlights some of the top news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients, with pieces today on Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.'s acquisition of Jefferson National Insurance Co. and a reshuffling within J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s wealth unit.

  • Wealth Adviser Daily Briefing: Teaming Up, Annuity Evolution, Fiduciary Push Back

    WSJ Wealth Adviser highlights some of the top news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients, with pieces today on how it pays for financial advisers to work with one another, Wells Fargo developing a new type of annuity and how the SEC has put plans for its own fiduciary rule on the back burner.

  • Wealth Adviser Daily Briefing: Merrill Fined, Energy Funds Ask for Time

    WSJ Wealth Adviser highlights some of the top news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients, with pieces today on Merrill Lynch settling allegations it failed to stop 15 large, faulty trades and how energy-focused private-equity firms are asking investors for more time.

  • Wealth Adviser Daily Briefing: Market Timing, Realistic Returns and Lawn Games

    WSJ Wealth Adviser highlights some of the top news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients, with pieces today on how two professors have developed a hypothetical trading strategy around earnings announcements that, with hindsight, has a formidable track record, advisers grounding investors' return expectations in reality and how old-time lawn games are finding a place in high-end homes.

  • Wealth Adviser Daily Briefing: Estate Planning for Blended Families (Podcast), Vacation Homes

    WSJ Wealth Adviser highlights some of the top news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients, with pieces today on generational trends and how they affect estate planning for stepchildren and blended families, advisers' use (and misuse) of robo platforms and how to buy a vacation home with a friend.

  • Wealth Adviser Daily Briefing: Success in Adviser Succession

    WSJ Wealth Adviser highlights some of the top news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients, with pieces today problems and solutions to ensure succession success at wealth-advisory firms, key questions from a financial pro to help clients focus on wealth and health, and a fiduciary best-practices registry.

  • Wealth Adviser Daily Briefing: Rich Getting Richer, Finra Board Upset

    WSJ Wealth Adviser highlights some of the top news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients, with pieces today on the growth of America's richest families, a Finra board upset and why wealth advisers should consider teaming up with professionals in other areas of expertise.

  • Wealth Adviser Daily Briefing: Betterment Pressured, Teaching Teachers

    WSJ Wealth Adviser highlights some of the top news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients, with pieces today on a regulator telling Betterment to revise its communication policies after the robo adviser only informed some clients of a trading halt and how advisers can help teachers prepare for retirement.

  • Wealth Adviser Daily Briefing: Rocky Markets, Adviser-Centaurs

    WSJ Wealth Adviser highlights some of the top news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients, with pieces today on the end of markets' summer vacation, the move in financial planning to incorporate artificial intelligence and family offices' weak 2015.

  • Wealth Adviser Daily Briefing: IRA Curbs, Merrill Settlement and New ETFs

    WSJ Wealth Adviser highlights some of the top news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients, with pieces today on a new proposal that would put new restrictions on how much high-income households could accumulate in individual retirement accounts and Merrill Lynch's settlement with former brokers.

  • Wealth Adviser Daily Briefing: Robo’s Advice, Goldman’s Secret Sauce

    WSJ Wealth Adviser highlights some of the top news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients, with pieces today on Betterment's slow-going explanation to advisers on its policies surrounding trading halts and disruptions, advice on a new Fafsa deadline and how to beat customer-service robots.

  • Wealth Adviser Daily Briefing: Structured CDs, Active ETFs and Risk Tolerance

    WSJ Wealth Adviser highlights some of the top news and analysis for wealth advisers and their clients, with pieces today on the surprise losses some savers are incurring on structured CDs, worries of a shakeout in junk bonds and not all "accredited investors" have equal risk tolerance.

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