Mark started with us as a reporter at our sister publication 'Financial Week' in 2005 and rose to become Associated Publisher (in 2013) and then Managing Director (2018) of InvestmentNews. In 2020 he moved on to become Managing Director at ECHELON Partners, and in 2021 Managing Director, Wealth Management, at Informa Connect. He Tweets at: @brunz99 and you can also connect with him on LinkedIn.
As advisers struggle to find investment strategies that will allow clients to preserve their retirement portfolios, many clients are now coming up with their solution: It's called working.
Opposition to the Obama administration's proposal to create automatic retirement plans in the workplace appears to be mounting — led in large part by both employers and financial advisers.
Financial institutions may be getting all the attention when it comes to executive perks, but one non-financial firm has raised eyebrows with the top-dollar compensation its chief executive gets for financial planning services.
As bailed-out financial institutions take more heat over the massive pay packages dished out to their executives, a key fringe benefit usually awarded to top officers — the financial planning perk — appears to be on the chopping block.
