Charles Paikert

Banyan Partners,the $4.3 billion Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.-based RIA, wants to hit $10 billion in assets in the next three years, establish a national brand and secure significant wallet share in both the high-net-worth and multifamily office markets.

After spending 13 months conducting “extensive due diligence research on the top 50 independent broker-dealers,” Householder Group decided that LPL, the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer, was best suited to support the firm’s “next chapter of growth.”

Laurie Belew, an FPA member since 2004, will be the 2014 FPA president-elect of the association's NexGen community for members age 36 and younger.

What, exactly, do high-performing advisory firms do differently than their less successful peers?

LPL Financial broke out of its recruiting slump in the third quarter, adding 154 net new advisors, nearly five times as many as the previous quarter.

The firms have been sanctioned by the SEC for violating the custody rule that requires them to meet certain standards when maintaining custody of their clients’ funds or securities.

The Opsahl Group, led by senior advisor Joseph Opsahl and advisor Chris Hatfield, is leaving Merrill Lynch’s Private Client Group to work with True, a key Dynasty Financial Partners firm in the Pacific Northwest.

Research conducted over 50 years on judging deception showed that the odds of accurately detecting lies are only “marginally higher” than pure luck.

Three investment advisory firms have been sanctioned by the SEC for repeatedly ignoring problems with their compliance programs.

At a panel at the national FPA conference, as well as in a new report from top study group aRIA, advisory firm executives spill their best human capital tips.

In seven years, Focus Financial has grown to $65 billion in AUM from $3 billion. CEO Rudy Adolf shares the company’s growth strategy.

If you’re breaking off from a larger advisory firm to go it alone, consider a specialty practice, say advisors.

The CFP Board “cannot justifiably act as both a regulator for continuing education providers and as a CE provider themselves,” FPA president Michael Branham said to a burst of applause Sunday at the general session of the association’s annual conference.

Financial planning “is still a relatively young profession with a lot of growing pains,” according to the incoming president of the FPA.

Large firms are targeting smaller “lifestyle” advisors who want to remain independent but need resources, guidance and business support from the “substantial ecosystem of solutions” that are now available.

Three big industry names are joining forces to form a new wealth management firm, Lebenthal Wealth Advisors.

Advisors at NAPFA describe how they’re working remotely with a majority of their clients. “More and more clients will expect this kind of service,” they say.

NAPFA’s new leaders are stressing new initiatives to expand the organization’s education programs and its membership.

But congressional politics are likely to put changes on hold for now, expert tells NAPFA conference.

Clients turned the tables on advisors Wednesday afternoon -- giving advice to the attendees at NAPFA’s fall conference in Philadelphia, rather than receiving it.