The Covid-19 outbreak has created health, social and economic repercussions impacting nearly every corner of American life, and financial advisors have witnessed first-hand many of the affects on their clients and their businesses. But help is on the way in the form of legislative and regulatory relief, said Skip Schweiss, TD Ameritrade's managing director for advisor advocacy and industry affairs, in “Congress Sends a CARES Package: What the historic law means for investors,” a Wednesday...

Fee-only financial advisors striving to help clients cope with the coronavirus will be able to temporarily access an insurance management platform dedicated to fiduciary-friendly products. Louisville, Ky.-based DPL Financial Partners announced on Monday it will make its turnkey platform offering fee-based annuities and other insurance products designed for fiduciaries free for financial advisors for the next three months. Normally, advisors have to pay a membership fee to access DPL’s...

Envestnet has announced that William Crager will serve as its ongoing CEO. The Chicago-based fintech giant’s board of directors said in a Monday evening press release that Crager, who has been serving as the company’s interim CEO since the death of Envestnet founder and CEO Jud Bergman in October 2019, will assume that role on a permanent basis effective immediately. “I am honored and humbled to lead Envestnet,” Crager said in a statement. “Having had the tremendous fortune to have partnered...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil It's sultry. It's sweaty. It's samba. When a national dance is as sexy as Brazil's, imagine what happens when millions of revelers gather in one place. That place is Rio, a city that drips with sensuality, from its curved coastline and barely clad beachgoers to its hopping nightlife. Even when Carnival is over, the locals, called Cariocas, live for drink, dance, and sun, grabbing life by the hips and shaking it all night long. Seductive Places to Stay The Copacabana...

Tiana Rice of The Bronx was 16 when she called her parents from her cell phone in a panic, screamed, and was disconnected on December 31. For a month they held onto every dispatch in her case, and searched frantically for her. Meanwhile the police had found her nude body in a crackhouse on Ridgewood Avenue. As there were no signs of trauma and no ID, authorities filed her as a Jane Doe; an apparently hasty examination showed she’d died of an asthma attack and that she appeared to be between...