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To aid difficult advisor-client conversations about money and love, the wealthtech firm is rolling out a new tool to help advisors become quasi "life coaches."

Don Plaus, a Merrill veteran who oversaw the Private Wealth advisors' expansion in Florida, came from a "modest background" but over a long career, rose to lead teams advising many of the world's richest people.

Liquid assets have often ended up at big banks or in sweep programs, which look much less attractive for clients' yields every time the Fed raises interest rates.

The move comes after rivals Bank of America and Goldman Sachs Group cut CEO pay, while JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo left theirs unchanged.

Plus, the best robos for first-timers and low cost or complex planning.

The church agreed to pay $1 million, while its Ensign Peak Advisers paid $4 million, to settle the SEC complaint that they failed to file forms disclosing the church's equity investments.

The tech nerd-turned-wealthtech exec accidentally stumbled into financial services via a job line in the late '90s. Here's how that happy accident changed everything for him and scores of advisors.

TD Bank estimates it hands out 20 million pens every year. Huntington is getting close to offering its 80 millionth pen. It's a way to get a bank's brand to travel with customers across the globe, but is it worth it?

The regional firm said it was offering Instagram Professional to advisors and would roll out YouTube and Spotify podcasting programs later this year to help with client acquisition and retention.

The founders of the Financial Professionals Coalition contend that most industry groups back firms and big players. They plan to stand up for the little guy.