Charles Paikert

In the latest deal for Focus Financial Firm, Boston-based RIA expands footprint, sees more acquisitions ahead.

Successful San Francisco advisor says the strategy has helped her own firm's business -- as well as progressive causes.

Firm founded by ex-PayPal & Intuit CEO opens Denver office as digital upstarts jockey for tech-savvy clients.

Independent RIAs in the increasingly competitive -- and lucrative -- San Francisco Bay Area market may have to raise their game, according to a leading investment banker.

Expect powerful regional RIAs to emerge from the current round of financial advisory deal-making.

New hires bolster the firm's recruiting and succession planning units.

The American College of Financial Services has launched Analyst Success.com, an Internet-based preparatory program for the CFA exam that includes self-guided and instructor-led packages.

New York, California and Texas will be ground zero for Fiera Capital, the $71 billion Canadian investment manager that is hoping to crack the top tier of the U.S. private wealth market.

Members of Generations X and Y - people between 23 and 48 years old - who have $1 million or more in investable asset are more active in the markets, engaged in planning and philanthropy, informed, optimistic and collaborative than their baby boomer counterparts, according to a new survey by Fidelity Investments.

“To have a national brand, you have to have a client experience that can be duplicated in every location, like Starbucks," says Rudy Adolf, CEO of Focus Financial Partners. "No advisory firm has the ability to deliver this kind of promise," he says.

Financial advisors are three times as likely to respond to a sales pitch from an asset manager, broker-dealer, custodian or insurance company when the approach is made in person, according to a new study.

The 2013 RIA Roadshow will kick off a six-city tour of the Midwest on Tuesday September 24 in Troy, Michigan.

The expansion-focused $6 billion wealth manager has added Santa Barbara-based Pacific Pointe to its roster, making it the fifth firm in Beacon Pointe’s growing stable, and the fourth in California.

Senior executives with leadership experience and strong sales skills in high demand as current advisors look to retire.

Larry Roth, former president and chief executive officer of Advisor Group, one of the country’s largest networks of independent broker-dealers, is joining Realty Capital Securities, a major broker-dealer and wholesaler of real estate investment trusts, as chief executive officer.

Now that profits are at record highs, financial advisors' next priority should be better people management, according to the 2013 FA Insight Study of Advisory Firms: People and Pay. Cost control, solid productivity and soaring client profitability helped the typical advisory firm reach a profit margin in excess of 20% in 2012, the highest margin in the survey's five-year history.

Rex Staples, the director of investigations for the beleaguered CFP Board of Standards, is stepping down.

Beginning next month, a number of tech firms that are also RIAs are poised to enter the red-hot online advisory space, offering consumers not only financial guidance but specific buy/sell/hold recommendations for mutual funds and ETFs, based on algorithms and aggregation of clients’ accounts.

The advisory industry is already locked in fierce competition to recruit new advisors. Now TD Ameritrade Institutional is ratcheting up its efforts to attract talent.

Edward Gjertsen II, vice president of Mack Investment Securities in Glenview, Ill,. has been named FPA president-elect by the organizations’ board of directors. Gjertsen’s one-year term as president-elect begins on January 1, 2014.