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Tax law has always impacted financial planning, and that’s especially true in the last couple of years since the passage of recent tax law reform. For financial advisors and wealth managers, it’s especially important to stay on top of the situation.

Increasingly, we hear about behavioral economics — the way humans make financial decisions based on their biases. Today’s advisor needs to be well-versed in ways biases can impact their clients and create portfolios that fall in line with what is known about behavioral economics.

The Investments & Wealth Institute is pleased to announce that Merrill Lynch joins several other financial firms in their endorsement of the Retirement Management Advisor^®  (RMA^®) certification.

Recently, The Wall Street Journal criticized the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board) regarding the integrity of their search directory for CFP^® professionals that resulted in a lot of commentary and confusion. As a certifying body like the CFP^® Board, the Investments & Wealth Institute would like to clarify some misconceptions brought to light by the article.

This past May more than 1,500 advisors from across the nation gathered in Las Vegas for the Institute’s 2019 Annual Conference Experience. The conference was packed with investment and wealth management thought leaders and numerous industry experts and innovators. New this year to ACE was the Women in Wealth luncheon, which included a panel discussion led by Kelly Walsh, CIMA®, RCC® National Director, Advisor Coaching and Director, Wealth Management Advisory Services, Coast Capital Wealth...