Some advisors find being an employee offers fewer hassles and more time with clients.

If your firm's home page looks like it's stuck in the 1990s, you're likely driving away prospects and employees. Here are 7 rules for making an upgrade.

First, seek out big challenges. Then figure out how to overcome them.

If we want uniform rules on investing recommendations, why stop at advisors?

Think success brings happiness? That's not the way it works. In fact, it's the other way around.

A better approach is needed for training advisors.

Despite turmoil, Africa and the Middle East have solid, long-term investment prospects, says the manager of the T. Rowe Price Africa & Middle East Fund.

A diversified portfolio may need foreign stocks, but are non-U.S. bonds worth the trouble?

Investors have been flocking to alternative mutual funds and ETFs - and are being punished for it.

Successful planners usually have a well-defined sales process for turning prospects into clients.

A former FPA chairman believes an international viewpoint can help advisors cope better with regulatory burdens.

Professional image is a balancing act: Not too chic, but not too shabby. Here's how 6 planners walk the line.

Living abroad seems like an inexpensive option for some prospective retirees, but there are many issues to consider.

For some planners, there is nothing more difficult to answer than, 'Do you have long-term care insurance?'

Funds specializing in gold and other precious metals glittered in the third quarter, but many other stock and bond categories also performed exceptionally well.

A catalog of some of the nation's top planning schools is a resource for both planners-to-be and today's advisors

As the case against Brooke Astor's son illustrated, even clients with reputable advisors can be vulnerable to predators.

Several recent trade conferences show that advisory firms are seeking more from their technology vendors.

HighTower has gotten a big boost by working with independents. Can it keep up the momentum?

Take care of your clients' futures as well as your own.

In the overheated atmosphere of Silicon Valley, investors need to hedge their bets.

Planner confidence gaining, assets shift further into equities from cash

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