Donna M. Mitchell

Fidelity helped 50 brokers breakaway in the first quarter. The challenge is helping them remain independent.

Regulator calls for tracking individual loans to increase transparency of private deals.

New leadership at Capco, changes at the CFP board of standards, and more executive moves.

Brinker is the latest to advance mobile computing for advisors, but Fidelity and Securities America tread cautiously.

Depending on who you ask, the executive changes at the firm are either business as usual, or another indication of the Morgan Stanley culture overtaking Smith Barney.

A new president at Penn Mutual, executive changes at Merrill Lynch, and more.

Distribution becomes tricky after wirehouses have consolidated and advisors continue to scatter.

Baird Private Wealth Management, a division of Milwaukee-based Baird has not said exactly how many advisors they want to recruit from the wirehouse channel this year, but this much is clear: the Arizona market is heating up.

As IMCA hires MacKenzie from the FPA, the latter looks forward to more advisor-focused collaborations.

Summit Financial plans an aggressive hiring spree, executive changes are afoot at Beacon Wealth Management, a new deputy director at IMCA, and more.

The Chicago-based executive search firm, which has a roster of real estate investment trusts, real estate managers and private equity managers, wants to expand to offer services to asset and wealth management firms.

Aging and retirement questions are especially critical to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered individuals and couples that are often single, childless and even when they do form families, have no nationally guaranteed legal provisions to help them work through these critical issues.

A new CIO at BNY Mellon, changes to the board of directors at Northern Trust, a new home for E-Trade's Donald Layton, and more.

Even competitor Morningstar gives nod to its business model.

Advisor software looks to help investors track financial goals.

Minerva takes over as chief operating officer at UBS and other executive changes in wealth management this week.

One advisor warned that keeping clients happy should top performance chasing.

He will improve critical communications between the firm and its advisor clients, according to observers.

Jeffrey M. Bagley, the newly appointed vice president of portfolio management and a senior research analyst at Haverford, takes a generalist approach that will serve him well in his new post.

According to a survey, a majority of advisors say clients want financial planning advice.