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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The RIA practice with $575 million in AUM joined four teams of similar size who have signed on in the past year.
May 8 -
In a bid to further enhance its capabilities for advisors, the firm is also slashing ETF transaction fees on select funds later this year.
May 3 -
Evolution Financial Advisors has grown to 86 advisors with $2.6 billion in client assets under Securities America.
May 1 -
The No. 1 IBD also nominated a new board member and tapped key executives for advisor support and government relations.
May 1 -
Independent Financial Partners aspires to be a “very, very small agent for change.”
April 30 -
The firm is looking at a range of “different opportunities” for potential wealth management deals, CEO Jim Cracchiolo says.
April 25 -
Increased captive insurance coverage due to expanded business in 2018 was a primary driver of a three-year high in regulatory spending, the firm says.
April 24 -
Blucora’s wealth management unit is transforming while showing some impressive results. But is the firm moving too fast?
April 22 -
The major employer-plan group had previously been affiliated with the predecessor of Global Retirement Partners.
April 15 -
The 7,500-advisor network agreed to buy certain assets of Foresters Financial’s U.S. BD and RIA.
April 10 -
An upcoming integration with AdvicePay marks the first step in a series of changes to recruiting and service at KMS under Erinn Ford.
April 9 -
An educational campaign aims to place the products front and center amid increasing longevity — but sales figures show they’re already in the limelight.
April 8 -
A CFP and former NDSU Bison aims to build a planning-based business from the ground up under the IBD’s model.
April 5 -
J.D. Power’s annual survey of self-directed investors displayed generational differences and the impact of equity volatility.
April 4 -
The Ladenburg IBD failed to spot the red flags of a barred ex-advisor who later pleaded guilty to fraud, former clients say.
April 3 -
Dan Arnold received $7.1 million in 2018, far below the longer-tenured chiefs of rival firms Ameriprise and Raymond James.
April 1 -
Nina O’Neal is set to launch the Female Advisor Network, joining a number of planners taking diversity matters into their own hands.
April 1 -
Growing fixed products, along with new fee-only offerings, are changing the shelf and the carrier rankings.
March 28 -
Arkadios Capital poached three advisors from its founders’ former firm after its revenue more than tripled in 2018.
March 27 -
Ladenburg Thalmann’s largest IBD also says it recruited more than 300 advisors with $2 billion in AUM in 2018.
March 21
