Ann Marsh

The CFP Board’s highly publicized $36 million 'Let's Make a Plan' campaign may have misled consumers.

Financial advisors who specialize manage nearly double the client assets of their peers, according to a study of 7,000 advisors conducted by research firm Cerulli Associates.

Saying the new cash will be used to fund growth, CEO Joe Duran targets $200 million to $250 million in annual revenue.

Mariner Wealth has jumped into the burgeoning space recently abandoned by LPL’s NestWise.

With $1.4 billion in assets already, firm aims to become a Southern California giant.

Educators say they expect full explanation and transparency.

Advisor network Northstar Wealth Partners added two new advisors managing a combined $800 million in client assets with the help of its independent broker-dealer.

The tax-focused independent broker-dealer has added two new executives to its management ranks.

The turnkey asset management platform taps executives with experience at Fidelity, Schwab and Russell Investments.

A pair of the country’s largest independent broker-dealers are the first firms to get the new recognition.

VisionPoint Advisory Group is looking to use the giant independent broker-dealer as a base to expand by recruiting more advisors.

Atlanta Capital and PFM say they will offer more concierge services to families with less than $20 million in AUM.

The two big wirehouses back the CFP Board’s move to strip out its 'fee-only listings.

Two planners who are suing the CFP Board amended their complaint to seek unspecified damages in addition to earlier claims seeking an admission of fault from the board as well as the quashing of a public sanction for calling their practice fee-only.

Significantly altered results now appear when users search for fee-only advisors.

The CFP Board extended a broad amnesty to hundreds of advisors who had been breaking its rules by calling themselves fee-only on the board’s website. The surprise move prompted calls for the board to reconsider and possibly rescind recent sanctions of other CFP holders for similar transgressions.

The CFP Board’s strategy of punishing some certificate holders over compensation disclosure issues in what critics charge is an arbitrary manner threatens the future of the CFP designation, according to one of the early leaders of the board who also chaired its disciplinary commission.

Exclusive: Without any notice, ‘fee-only’ is replaced with ‘none provided’ on CFP holders’ profiles.

Exclusive: Widespread abuse of the term raises question of a disciplinary double-standard.

At a time when recruiting is down across the independent broker-dealer space, Cetera Financial Group has added 247 net new advisors nationwide between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2013.