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 firm is also trying to upgrade its services for advisors through new digital chatting tools to get in touch with the corporate office without any phone calls.
October 28 -
Higher interest rates pushed up profits as the company revealed the timing for completion of the massive $2.5-billion integration of its 2020 acquisition.
October 28 -
A behavioral science researcher and an HBCU planning professor gave financial advisors tangible steps that can alter the industry's legacy of exclusion.
October 27 -
In a panel at PIABA's annual conference, the head of the regulator's arbitration program discussed how the bombshell case has led to reforms.
October 26 -
The brokerage added more than 200 independent financial advisors for the second quarter in a row while driving up the productivity of its existing ranks.
October 26 -
Private Advisor Group is going through a CEO succession, while $2.5B firm CCR secured financing from the parent of its longtime brokerage.
October 25 -
Securities America has paid more than $15 million in an SEC case and settlements with the fraud victims of Hector May and his daughter, Vania May Bell.
October 20 -
The new firm joins a movement that also drew a growth capital investment of $200 million into burgeoning RIA aggregator Sequoia.
October 19 -
The four Black planners have worked for some of the largest firms in the industry. Now they've started their own ensemble practice.
October 18 -
The influx during a challenging quarter displays how the wirehouse's three channels are starting to work together in tandem, CEO James Gorman says.
October 17 -
Despite losing more than 500 brokers from its headcount in the third quarter, the wirehouse sees strong recruiting momentum in its pipeline.
October 17 -
CEO Jamie Dimon drove the headlines with predictions about the "kind of odd" economy. Meanwhile, the firm's wealth units quietly added hundreds of recruits.
October 14 -
Rankings compiled through FP's annual RIA Leaders study show how the largest firms are growing at a record clip in offices across the country.
October 14 -
A Centaurus financial advisor racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra commissions through sales of pricey products, the regulator says.
October 12 -
A new study found high rates of stress among professionals in the field, which is adjusting to a growing focus on work-life balance for employees.
October 11 -
The firm has more than doubled in size since it rebranded to its current name and began building on its current model in 2016.
October 6 -
A basic scam victimizing a client who has since been diagnosed with dementia evaded any red flags for eight years, according to the SEC.
October 5 -
Two panels of experts explained why family relationships, financial literacy and trust are so important to the coveted niche of clients.
October 4 -
Names like Wealthspire, EP Wealth, Cresset, Chevy Chase and Moneta ring a bit more familiar compared with other massive firms with less name recognition.
October 3 -
The lack of formal codification and an accurate count of customers leaves the profession struggling with fundamental questions about identifying the true practitioners and their base of clients.
September 30
