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 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 -
The regulator provided a detailed listing of practices subject to tougher client-care standards for disclosure or outright elimination.
August 3 -
Two Securities America brokers and their firm must pay the large award after a case that leaves many unanswered questions.
August 2 -
The giant custodian's practice management team homes in on a metric that experts say often gets ignored by financial advisors.
August 1 -
The independent hybrid RIA is “one big firm whose business model has changed,” CEO Paul Reilly said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call.
July 28 -
SmartAsset tracked “organic” growth to see which advisor firms added the most clients and AUM over the past three years.
July 28
