Toby is a veteran journalist with more than a dozen years of experience in the field who joined Financial Planning in 2017 after prior tenures with the New York Daily News, Commercial Observer and City Limits. He earned an undergraduate degree in the humanities from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree in journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He has won a dozen business journalism awards during his time with Financial Planning, including those received for the 2020 podcast series "
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Wealth management firms have a “massive opportunity” to use new methods of reaching clients and the wider industry, FiComm Partners CEO Megan Carpenter says in an episode of Financial Planning’s In|Vest Podcast.
March 5 -
LPL’s continuing major poaches from rivals make up only one of the kinds of ways that firms are vying to attract and retain advisors.
March 2 -
Five years of alleged promises, checks that never arrived, and a mysterious employee named “Tryg Nederloe” add up to a bizarre saga with wide ramifications.
March 2 -
RIAs should begin the selling process by visualizing their ideal situation, investment banker and consultant David DeVoe says in an episode of Financial Planning’s In|Vest Podcast.
February 27 -
Both firms have lower advisor headcounts, higher productivity and relocation plans — but Blucora's acquisitions have boosted its wealth management business.
February 26 -
In an episode of Financial Planning’s podcast, David Flores Wilson explains how his Gen-X and Millennial client base fueled his transition from investment banking.
February 25 -
In a new episode of Financial Planning’s In|Vest Podcast, the impact investing consultant explains what prompted her to start collecting accounts of harassment, assault and discrimination.
February 20 -
Undisclosed payments from alt managers should have been explained to clients in Form ADV, the regulator says.
February 20 -
The exit of David Knoch is the latest change at the growing and rapidly pivoting tax-focused IBD formerly known as HD Vest.
February 18 -
Venture capitalist and In|Vest Conference Chair Sebastian Dovey says in a new episode of Financial Planning’s podcast that the industry is “No. 1 for playing ourselves down” and “saying that we’re bad” at technology.
February 13 -
OneDigital’s acquisition of Resources Investment Advisors shows a convergence between two major spaces within financial services.
February 13 -
Two other groups of MML Investors financial advisors have boarded what the expanded firm’s CEO calls a “big boat” under Coastal Wealth.
February 11 -
The 8,000-advisor IBD network will launch “a more robust hybrid offering” this year, Head of Wealth Management Tim Stinson tells Financial Planning in a new podcast.
February 11 -
A rare appearance by one of the investors reshaping the IBD sector drew questions from rivals — and insights into the firms’ approach.
February 7 -
Entrepreneur Abraham Okusanya explains in the latest episode of Financial Planning’s new In|Vest Podcast how he’s trying to help firms and planners tackle retirement distribution.
February 6 -
Faced with the retention risk from the RIA-only channel, firms are trying to alter their company cultures and questioning traditional approaches.
February 5 -
The recent moves display the stakes of the competitive recruiting fight, which has led to firms like AmeriFlex seeking to give advisors greater flexibility and resources.
February 4 -
Jim Cracchiolo predicts the number of advisors will go back up, but he says the firm places more importance on boosting the size of their businesses.
January 31 -
In the latest episode of Financial Planning’s new podcast series, advisor Rachel Robasciotti discusses her activism around mandatory arbitration and relates the remarkable story behind her RIA.
January 30 -
The IBD advocacy group expects no letup in enforcement by the regulator — with wide ramifications across wealth management hanging in the balance.
January 28
