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The Wealth Advisor is today’s most relied-on source of news and education for planners and advisors. We scan the news so you don’t have to, sending you what you don’t want to miss…but don’t always have time to find yourself without poring through dozens of publications. The Wealth Advisor sends you a handy once-a-week list of the most important news, hand-picked by our staff for its importance to investment advisors and their practices.

The Oil Market ‘Is Lying To Us,’ Oil Execs Say

(Yahoo! Finance) - Big Oil is making money but losing sleep. Sure, high oil prices are nice; we’ll find out next week exactly how nice when the majors report first-quarter earnings. But what goes up must eventually come down. And even though US oil executives and insiders are worried that energy market disruption stemming from the war in Iran is poised to get significantly worse, they’re not ready to ramp up drilling to counteract it.

Medicare Strategy Must Be Implicated In The Broad Retirement Plan

Most clients arrive at retirement with well-formed beliefs about money, yet one of the most persistent and costly blind spots remains healthcare planning under Medicare. Even highly prepared households routinely underestimate how structural gaps, timing errors, and plan selection decisions can compound over decades. For advisors, this represents both a material risk to client outcomes and a critical opportunity to deliver differentiated guidance.

CEO Turnover Is Accelerating Across Global Markets

The recent announcement that Tim Cook will step down as CEO of Apple, with longtime executive John Ternus set to assume the role on September 1, reflects a broader leadership inflection point that wealth advisors and RIAs should not view in isolation. Instead, it is part of a systemic shift in executive tenure, succession planning, and corporate strategy that has meaningful implications for portfolio construction, governance evaluation, and long-term capital allocation.