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David Woodcock is set to take the job as SEC leadership directs staff to focus on insider trading, accounting fraud cases, market manipulation and breach of fiduciary duty by investment advisors.

The addition of Peter Laidlaw to Merrill's offices in San Francisco comes as firm executives aim to engage in "more aggressive recruiting."

A deal is more than just a top-line number and misalignment in culture and communications can cause conflict down the line.

RIA Soltis acquired accounting, tax and advisory firm GDM Private Financial Solutions, the latest example of client demand for integrated wealth and tax planning solutions.

SEC regulators instead take aim at their predecessors in the Biden Administration, saying the outsized fines were partly the result of a desire to "pursue media headlines and run up numbers."

Advisors with asset minimums find themselves rejecting clients arbitrarily and can often feel disconnected from their clients' planning goals.

The Minneapolis-based company plans to leverage the arrangement to draw more attention to its growing list of national business lines, transcending its regional reputation.

A Wells Fargo executive is using her own cancer diagnosis as a wake-up call and teaching case for financial advisors and their clients' estate plans.

It's that time of year again! Here's how to nominate a colleague — or yourself — for Financial Planning's annual Rising Star awards.

Despite ongoing concerns over geopolitics and more, many advisors said they would increase allocations to foreign equities over the next few months.