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The problem loans mature right around when tenants in the offices are due to renew — or end — their leases. That may unsettle investors in commercial mortgage-backed securities, analysts at Moody’s Analytics warned this week.

Earnings are up from the second quarter, but originations slip at Wells Fargo and Citi.

The government-sponsored enterprise is instituting this stopgap measure as it examines how it can mitigate the growing risk of disrepair in aging condos.

Brian Wallheimer is editor-in-chief of Financial Planning, where he leads a team of journalists covering the wealth management industry. His coverage areas focus on practice management, client service and industry trends, providing actionable intelligence that helps financial advisors grow their practices and better serve clients.

Under his leadership, Financial Planning has been recognized with multiple industry accolades for excellence in journalism, including Jesse H. Neal, ASBPE, SABEW Best in Business and Folio's Eddie awards. The team's award-winning coverage has included reporting on industry conflicts of interest, diversity initiatives, government policy, evolving advisor models and an in-depth series on how to start an RIA.

Brian served as managing editor before being appointed editor-in-chief in 2022. He previously covered the Illinois General Assembly and governor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch while earning his master's degree, and his career has included reporting and editing roles in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Indiana, where he covered government, higher education and some of the largest casinos in the world. He also worked as a science writer at Purdue University's College of Agriculture, developing stories about research and placing expert sources in coverage by The New York Times, NPR, the Chicago Tribune and other national, regional and local outlets.

Born and raised just outside St. Louis, Brian is a die-hard Cardinals fan. An Eagle Scout and avid hiker, he can sometimes convince at least one of his three children to join him on the trail.

Rising inflation and moves by the Federal Reserve are expected to fuel interest rate growth into 2022.

Financial advisors have a variety of objectives in working with their investment-planning clients. But when all is said and done, clients are usually mainly interested in a successful road map to growing and protecting their wealth to and through retirement.

Following the federal moratorium’s end, the number jumped, marking the highest quarterly growth on record, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Democrats’ $3.5 trillion social policy package would appropriate over $300 billion for housing-related measures, including down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers. But those provisions could be on the chopping block as centrists try to trim the bill’s price tag.

Zixta Q. Martinez has been with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since its inception a decade ago and most recently was a senior advisor in the supervision, enforcement and fair-lending division.

Tobias Salinger is Financial Planning's chief correspondent, with nearly a decade of experience covering wealth management, regulation and the business of financial advice. He specializes in investigations and enterprise reporting on advisory firm strategy, regulation, conflicts of interest, and diversity and equality across the industry. 

Tobias has been recognized for his investigations and original reporting on the conflicts of interest that affect wealth management firms, as well as systemic racism in finance, winning more than a dozen honors, including the Jesse H. Neal, Azbees, SABEW Best in Business and Folio Eddie awards.

His award-winning coverage includes:

• Building Black Wealth in St. Louis
• The wealth management industry's $1T conflict of interest
• A black eye for FINRA? Brokers with checkered histories cast doubt on enforcement efforts
• Access denied: Systemic racism in financial services
• From sealed transcripts, the inside saga of LPL Financial's largest termination ever

Before Financial Planning, Tobias reported for the New York Daily News, Commercial Observer and City Limits. He holds a master's degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (2013) and is an alumnus of the Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, an international program focused on how the lessons of history inform professional ethics today in journalism and many other fields.

Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, now based in Chicago, Tobias is an avid softball player, a novice bird watcher and reader of contemporary fiction.

Connect with Tobias on LinkedIn or reach him at: tobias.salinger@arizent.com.