Jessica Mathews

Records obtained by Financial Planning detail dozens of worker safety complaints related to COVID. But the problem could be as much about employee relations as it is about the pandemic.

The custodian has 15 firms scheduled to transition before the end of this year. It hopes to migrate each of them over in less than six weeks.

The program has historically been high-stakes and cold-calling friendly. Novice advisors can expect something different now.

Gabe Garcia had been working to transform E-Trade’s custodian since shortly after the retail brokerage purchased it in 2018.

While several analysts are bullish, not all are convinced of the Canadian asset manager’s newfound strategy.

As more wealth management companies roll out cryptocurrency resources for advisors, here’s what’s still holding some planners back.

The bank and asset manager has filed for four exchange traded funds in recent weeks, and its strategy for distribution starts with RIAs.

It’s the 14th RIA acquisition for the Canadian asset manager since it entered the U.S. market last year.

Lose the jargon, get more digital and tone down the retirement talk.

The Foundation for Financial Planning has been rallying financial planners and corporate executives for more than 26 years to help the people advisors typically don’t reach.

The company has benefited from a market surge, new investors and an uptick in broker breakaways.

The deal will nearly double Congress Wealth Management’s client assets.

The self-clearing custodian has unified its broker-dealer and RIA segments under one division at the company.

The company upped its recruiting package last year, a change that has been “very well received by prospective advisors,” according to the CEO.

The pandemic has ushered in an ultra-remote environment, complete with more video calls, more e-signing and, inevitably, more stress.

Despite losing more than 295 net advisors in the first three months of the year, the wirehouse had one of its best quarters in history in terms of revenue.

A net 236 brokers left the wirehouse in the three months ending in March, the company said in its latest quarterly report.

The acquisition will add $124 billion of European AUM and give Ameriprise access to the Canadian bank’s ESG strategies. It will also initiate a distribution relationship with the Bank of Montreal’s North American wealth management business.

The company has experienced “dramatic increases” in new customers, call and trading volumes.

More than half of the broker-dealer’s clients say they’re interested in increasing the share of socially-responsible investments in their current portfolio.