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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An innovative hybrid firm's new brokerage displays how the industry is placing advisory business at the center of its well-financed plans for the future.
August 25 -
The influential organization of fee-only planners is seeking to boost its membership further and take a lead role in the fiduciary debate.
August 23 -
Find all of the figures from Financial Planning's latest annual study of brokerages whose financial advisors aren't employees of the firms.
August 22 -
These are the largest firms with financial advisors who work with broker-dealers but aren't their employees.
August 22 -
The firm terminated the longtime financial advisor. But experts say that isn't always a best practice, and many female professionals continue to report abuses.
August 22 -
The word 'broker' carries negative connotations. But to many wealth management professionals, commission-based shops are valuable to a transforming industry.
August 21 -
Alpine Securities has added to its long docket of run-ins with regulators over the last several years, alleging the SEC is piling on.
August 18 -
Buyers and sellers are overhauling their firms by folding in accounting and newly-launched independent advisors.
August 17 -
Members of the influential fee-only planners group paid tribute to the growth and professionalism during their outgoing chief's tenure.
August 16 -
A retirement plan and wealth practice spanning $1.4 billion displays how independent moves in 2022 are keeping up with or even surpassing those from 2021.
August 16 -
The company's CEO offered a rare perspective on what the industry can learn from it.
August 15 -
A little-noticed change to "overflow" money will push down customers' yields at a time of rapidly rising interest rates — unless they opt out.
August 11 -
An ex-Woodbury Financial advisor faces 10 felony counts as the industry and regulators keep working on getting better at detecting and preventing scams.
August 10 -
Reformers and supporters of the existing system are already lining up on either side of the fight as the regulator follows up on its pledges to pursue changes.
August 10 -
Al Jacobi followed his longtime business partner out the door from a bank with a large wealth arm that pulled out of an acquisition agreement earlier this year.
August 9 -
Securities arbitration experts say the Investor Justice Act would represent the SEC's first recurring grants for free counsel that's sorely missing.
August 8 -
Profit plummeted in the second quarter as economic conditions and rising expenses took a toll on the firm's results.
August 8 -
Three new incoming partner firms have brought $9.5 billion in combined client assets and $50 million in annual revenue this year.
August 4 -
The publicly traded holding company completed the latest of more than 1,000 brokerage shutdowns in the past decade.
August 4 -
CEO Dan Arnold says the firm is eyeing continued records in its headcount, despite the usual dropoff in broker moves during downturns.
August 4
