Ann Marsh

The aggregator thinks it’s found a sweet spot sharing revenues with firms it acquires, says CEO Bob Oros.

“I wanted to be able to walk in the door and only be able to answer to one constituency: my clients,” advisor Andy Ferguson says.

During rapid growth, the firm allegedly failed to detect a cascade of red flags.

“Clients have gotten a good scare,” says Dave Welling, CEO of Mercer Advisors.

“We basically had clients demanding that we find a new home,” after Wells Fargo failed to secure PPP loans for them, an advisor says.

“Astute RIA leaders recognize that now is an opportunity for growth,” says one advisor.

The majority of advisors don’t understand how much of a positive difference they can make for their clients, says advisor Deborah Fox.

“It’s going to flip everything on its head,” says one XY Planning Network advisor.

Candidates will be allowed “two tissues” while testing at home and are advised to have bed linen handy.

“The face of our industry is typically not me,” says the Vanguard and DFA veteran. “I thought about how many young people that I could inspire. So I raised my hand.”

The board is “decisively moving away” from allowing advisors to self-disclose, CEO Kevin Keller says.

After logging 27 years at the firm, the advisor is starting his “next 25-year chapter” as an independent.

With her innovative, rapid-fire leadership, the recipient of this year’s individual award is giving nearly 2,000 aspiring planners unprecedented entree into a profession sorely in need of them

Granular sensitivity and remarkable speed characterized the overnight virtualization of the firm.

The firm, which has nearly tripled in size in the last year, says it continues to seek out acquisition targets.

“Especially in this time when we are thinking, ‘Is there going to be a shortage of opportunity,’ in comes this one. It’s put a lot of fire in me to learn as much as I can,” says new college graduate Kameron Kindle.

Hailing from Merrill Lynch, Edward Jones and Waddell & Reed, the advisors join as both employees and independents

An advisor whose family has been “irrevocably harmed by police brutality” calls on industry peers and their clients to spark positive change.

The change is one of several made to the board’s disciplinary reporting process following a report by an independent task force that found “systemic, long-standing, governance-level weaknesses.”

LPL advisor Kashif Ahmed tweeted his condition from the emergency room then focused on recovering, knowing his firm could run without him.