Tobias Salinger

Higher internal expenses in mutual fund share classes came with much lower overall advisory fees in wrap accounts, the firm argues.

The RIA consolidator poached the founding advisor’s practice only about a year after the enterprise closed its BD in its prior move.

A lack of uniform classifications and an identity crisis at the heart of the fragmented industry makes it a thorny task.

Some of the industry's largest firms and toughest critics weighed in on the vexing fragmentation that’s growing alongside the trillions in AUM.

The Catholic charitable society’s new proprietary models join Quaker and Lutheran-rooted investing products and services at the industry’s intersection with religion.

After topping $1 billion in client assets, Crewe Advisors completed the first step in its growth strategy.

The distinction between the two concepts lies in advocacy and leadership, said executives from Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Citi and Stifel.

The practice led by two brothers is the 10th to join Dynasty’s platform in 2021, as more wirehouse teams go independent.

Morgan Stanley, Raymond James, Charles Schwab and Truist aim to fuel long-term shifts in advisor recruitment and retention through a series of new programs.

Fed up with the traditional brokerage training programs, financial advisors are opening more doors right into independent practices.

The question revolves around each individual practice’s specific structure and outlook more than any other factor.

Allison Herren Lee and Robert Cook also vowed to continue reforming expungements after the tabling of a new proposed rule earlier this year.

The Canadian asset manager’s stateside AUM will pass $80 billion after its latest deal for a Silicon Valley-based firm.

New products constructed on more stringent ESG criteria than the so-called greenwashers often can’t be accessed through large wealth managers.

Plan participants gave firms low marks in fundamental areas, though some performed better than others.

An unusual recommendation by the wirehouse’s First Clearing unit drove the big succession deal for XML Financial Group.

Cresset added five more advisors to the previous 10 that the megabank claims a founding partner recruited in violation of the terms of his resignation.

Kuttin Wealth Management is four years into an ambitious strategy to build offices nationwide using the model of its founder’s practice.

MML Investors Services allegedly breached its fiduciary duty in the same way that the regulator has alleged that more than 100 other firms have in recent years.