Practice

In 2012, 36% of all participants in Vanguard retirement plans invested their assets in a professionally managed investment option, more than double that did so in 2007.

Athens, Ga.-based Stadion Money Management’s family of actively managed risk-based and target date retirement funds have found a new home on the Mid Atlantic Trust Company’s platform.

When you launch your own RIA everything matters. Even the color pink.

Globally, women are more economically powerful than ever before. Kathleen Kingsbury write that, despite this financial influence, many women still struggle to express their personal power in the workplace.

To generate more high-level referrals, Bill Cates suggests advisors try hosting a simple, targeted educational seminar populated by clients and their friends.

Janney continues to emphasize its focus on the Southeast with the addition of two former Stephens advisors in Columbia, S.C.

A Detroit investment adviser will pay $3.1 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims that he stole money from a police pension fund to finance his purchase of two California strip malls.

Women advisors descended on Dallas for the recent Women Advisors Forum. The day of educational sessions, discussion and networking opportunities featured an array of topics from how to use complex assets for charitable giving to succession planning and what it’s like to start your own business after starting out at a wirehouse.

“Nothing I did in the last five years had anything to do with selling on a commission basis,” he told Financial Planning.

Hilliard Lyons continues growth in North Carolina with the addition of two former UBS advisors.