Financial Planning

The Supreme Court held Monday that securities fraud plaintiffs need not prove loss causation in order to obtain class certification.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a new accounting standards update for stock compensation.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have long supported an estate tax to prevent the U.S. from being dominated by inherited wealth. That doesn’t mean they want to pay it.

U.S. Wealth Management president and CEO John Napolitano discusses how accounting firms should be choosier about the clients they accept, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has published two proposed statements to improve financial reporting by state and local governments of other post-employment benefits, such as retiree health insurance.

A unanimous Supreme Court has held that the funds in an inherited IRA do not qualify for exemption in bankruptcy because they do not share the same characteristics as “retirement funds” that traditional IRAs have.

Genworth Financial has created a new Web site with information on long term care.

The Internal Revenue Service issued a ruling yesterday clearing the way for institutional investors to seek changes to incentive fees assessed by hedge funds, which may make it cheaper for them to invest in such offerings.

One of the key hurdles that advisors encounter in considering the transition to offering integrated wealth management services is the fundamental gap between the marketing model employed by traditional financial advisors and the practices that tax advisors are familiar with from the accounting world.

Tax rules continuously change, but the specific tax matter here is not what’s important. What is important is the process.