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American Growth Fund announces its first offering focused on the legalized marijuana business.

The seven recruits made the move from three wirehouses, Raymond James and Stifel.

The former wirehouse group, which specializes in retirement plan consulting and planning, worked mostly with institutional clients before making the move.

These funds are by definition heavily volatile, but if you were well-timed you might be deep in the money. For those who’ve played the sector for a few years, the pain runs deep.

The number of financial advisers at the firm declines 1% to 15,042.

A longstanding obstacle is getting banks to recognize the opportunities in the wealth business, says Arthur Osman, executive vice president and institution service business consultant at LPL.

The head of the advisory group also was returning to where his career started.

Funds targeting the industry's youngest retirement investors often take the most aggressive allocation strategies – which had the best five-year returns?

There is little to fear from the final version of the Department of Labor's regulation, planners say in a new survey.

These funds have the luxury of time to be more aggressive – which had the best five-year returns?

When retirement is still nearly two decades off, which funds posted the best five-year returns?

Which funds that are approaching their target year have had the best five-year returns?

Which funds that already reached their target year have had the best five-year returns?

The sector has been in a slump of late, but these funds have bested the S&P 500 over time.

A recent FINRA report actually bolsters arguments against investors using automated advice, according to the author of an agenda-setting study on digital advice and investment law.

As the fiduciary rule pressures firms to develop products and platforms, they must realize I.T. has a seat at the table in the decision process, says Putnam Investment's new chief technology officer.

While the sector has been in a slump, advisors who go beyond the recent returns can show clients how these funds have bested the S&P 500 over time.

Total assets for the regional B-D's Individual Investor Group will reach about $40 billion after it merges with Smith Hayes.

The Bank of America unit that serves ultrawealthy clients picked up new recruits from Morgan Stanley and Hirtle Callaghan.

Mutual funds lost nearly $8 billion in outflows for 2015, a 2% year-over-year decline. See which Morningstar category performed the best.