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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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.
September 14 -
Kuttin Wealth Management is four years into an ambitious strategy to build offices nationwide using the model of its founder’s practice.
September 14 -
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.
September 13 -
The acquisition will solve a father-son enterprise’s succession and help it continue to grow, Carroll Financial CEO Kristopher Carroll said.
September 13 -
Former consultant Sloane Ortel got the idea for the SRI startup from being a member of a food co-op in Brooklyn, New York.
September 10 -
More than 400 advisors and clients have used CHIP since Dana Wilson started the referral service at the beginning of last year.
September 10 -
Financial advisor Andre Jean-Pierre dropped his broker-dealer with big plans for his burgeoning group of followers on Twitter and Clubhouse.
September 8 -
Penn Mutual-owned Hornor, Townsend & Kent has completed an executive shakeup after its advisor headcount fell by 10% last year.
September 7 -
The wirehouse’s decision to drop foreign business earlier this year has created a recruiting opportunity for its rivals.
September 7 -
Onex Corporation’s private equity arm is investing in an RIA consolidator that’s been nearly as active in M&A as another firm in its portfolio.
August 28 -
Concurrent is having its best recruiting year ever, and the firm’s new managing director of business development aims to boost its expansion even more.
August 26 -
The longtime director of investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America could signal an overhaul of Reg BI under the Biden administration.
August 25 -
The board member of LGBTQ Loyalty Holdings and the company CEO discussed a new ETF that uses a four-pronged ESG screen of large cap growth equities.
August 25 -
20 planners and executives offer starkly different views in the wake of a national spate of racial prejudice and violence targeting the group often typecast as the "model minority."
August 25 -
Independent broker-dealers can find examples for how best to serve, hire, support and promote a historically underrepresented group after a year marked by hate.
August 25 -
Find all of the data from FP’s annual survey of the industry and ranking of firms by yearly revenue.
August 23 -
Despite smaller growth amid the coronavirus last year, FP’s 36th annual survey revealed the significant level of business raked in by 46 wealth managers.
August 23 -
The delicate balance between the No. 1 IBD and its ‘critical clients’ is evolving as the industry changes.
August 23 -
Defense cites a heart condition caused by a Brazilian parasite as a reason for lesser time.
August 16 -
The hybrid LPL enterprise is purchasing a fee-only practice as part of its first foray into a major wealth management market.
August 14
