Matt Bird | Corbis | Getty Images Where is the future of financial advice headed? The answers always seem fraught with risk and uncertainty. While the bull market in stocks has gone a long way to helping the advice industry recover from the reputational fallout of the financial crisis, technology, demographics and regulatory confusion continue
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Getty Do you know if your retirement portfolio is overexposed to growth stocks? Over the last decade, growth stocks have performed significantly better than value stocks. Over the past year, however, it appears the pendulum has swung to favor value stocks and recent data suggests the trend is accelerating. For the quarter just ending September
Rendering of new Andrew Rafacz Gallery at 1749 W. Chicago Avenue in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood. Courtesy of Andrew Rafacz Gallery CHICAGO, Ill. – After 15 years in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, internationally acclaimed Andrew Rafacz Gallery is relocating to a new 2,000-square-foot storefront space at 1749 W. Chicago Avenue, an historic building constructed in 1916
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin A judge revealed that Deutsche Bank is not in possession of Trump’s tax returns. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ASSOCIATED PRESS Topline: Deutsche Bank said it doesn’t have President Donald Trump’s tax returns in a court filing released Thursday in what is a blow to House Democrats’ efforts
Leslie Josephs | CNBC Delta Air Lines reported third-quarter earnings beat Wall Street estimates on Thursday, after reporting strong demand from both leisure and corporate travelers. Revenue rose 5% from a year ago to $12.56 billion, slightly below analysts’ forecasts. Net income rose more than 21% to $1.5 billion. Sales from its premium cabins, like
A smoker is engulfed by vapours as he smokes an electronic vaping machine. Tolga Akmen | AFP | Getty Images A deadly lung illness linked to vaping has taken the lives of more than two dozen people across 21 states as U.S. health officials struggle to identify a precise cause of the outbreak, the Centers
David Rea, president of No. 1-rated financial advisor firm Salem Investment Counselors, attributes his start in the business to excellent professors at Indiana University while he was pursuing an MBA. Salem Investment Counselors Everyone loves a good origin story, whether it’s fictional, like Superman’s, or real life — think Warren Buffett or Steve Jobs —
14 March 2018, Germany, Frankfurt am Main: An Airbus A380 (L) and a retro design Boeing 747-8 cross each others path at the ramp of Frankfurt Airport. picture alliance | picture alliance | Getty Images European governments continued to call for a negotiated settlement to trade disputes between the United States and the European Union
Sam Edwards | OJO Images | Getty Images It’s evident that the financial advice business has evolved over the years. The industry continues to mature, and financial advisors are always finding ways to address and meet the demands of today’s investors. In fact, given the increased complexity of everyone’s financial lives, investors are eager to
CNBC’s Jim Cramer is warning against trading stocks on the roller coaster of U.S.-China headlines as the two countries restarted high-level talks aimed at ending their 15-month-old trade war on Thursday. Markets are “hostage to events that are not only totally out of our hands, but I think totally out of the president’s hands,” Cramer
Finding the right advisor to help with your financial needs and goals can be complicated. There are so many factors to assess. Many advisors will use a high asset under management as a selling point metric when marketing themselves to potential investors. However, AUM isn’t the whole story when a potential client is determining which
Gifts have to be reported on Gift tax returns which are complicated! Getty If you are like many wealthy taxpayers, your CPA and/or tax attorney have just finished a grueling, down-to-the-deadline, tax filing for gift tax returns. Many of these gift tax returns were triggered out of prudent efforts by taxpayers planning to reduce their
Lisa Rizzolo | CNBC The cost of homeowners insurance is one of those unavoidable expenses that comes along with owning a house. How much you’ll pay for insurance varies depending on your location and the age of your home, but the average annual homeowners insurance premium is $1,200. That can feel like a big expense,
Billionaire Warren Buffett, speaks during a news conference of International Metalworking Companies (IMC) in Dalian, Shangdon province, China, on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007. Buffett said investors should be “cautious” about China’s stocks as prices surge. Photographer:Kevin Lee/Bloomberg News BLOOMBERG NEWS Editor’s Note: The original version of this article was published in the October 2019 issue
Getty The Social Security Administration announced key numbers that affect workers and retirees today—a substantial increase in the wage base for workers and a modest increase in benefits for retirees. First the wage base news. The maximum amount of earnings subject to Social Security tax will rise 3.6% to $137,700 in 2020. That means a
Apple CEO Tim Cook Spencer Platt | Getty Images Three major U.S. businesses angered China this week, and found themselves in hot water over episodes related to the Hong Kong anti-government protests. However, the three entities — Apple, Activision and the National Basketball Association — all reacted differently to Beijing’s outrage. Still, they were all
An attendee uses his smartphone to record a facial-recognition demonstration on himself at the Beijing Megvii booth at the MWC Shanghai exhibition in Shanghai, China, on June 27, 2019. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s move to blacklist Chinese tech companies is threatening to derail what could be the first Chinese
Dow Jones Industrial Average jumps 181 points The Dow climbed 181.97 points, or 0.70% to close at 26,346.01. The S&P 500 gained 0.91% to end the day at 2,919.40. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.02% to 7,903.74. Stocks got a jolt from a report that stoked hopes for the U.S.-China trade talks. Trade hopes rise heading
Fort Myers, Florida. Philippe TURPIN | Photononstop | Getty Images There’s no place like home. Unless, of course, you are retired. Lured by better weather, lower taxes or an improved quality of life, many older Americans consider relocating to stateS like Florida or the Carolinas. To that end, U.S. News & World Report determined the
Americans report saving money in anticipation of a recession. Getty Put simply, Americans’ relationship with money is broken. It’s no secret that most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. That staggering statistic never ceases to sadden me. Unfortunately, widening income inequality is only worsening the problem. Over the past decade’s bull market, the unemployment rate has