Practice

Advisors with growing practices quickly realize that it’s helpful to pass as many tasks to a strong support team. Ken Haman offers some practical insights and suggestions for how you can more efficiently develop a great support team and then manage their focus on deliverables.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's long-awaited proposal to reform the money market mutual fund industry has left observers wondering whether the agency compromised too much in an effort to get a plan out the door.

With the multitude of challenges confronting investors today, consumers need financial advice more than ever before. But advisors must first capture their attention and engage them. Steve Dowden says advisors need to build a platform to shout their message from.

A broad coalition of advocacy groups is calling for the SEC to press ahead with an expansion of a fiduciary standard to hold broker-dealers to identical standards of care for retail client that are already imposed on investment advisors.

Advisors must adapt their thinking and shed their stereotypes about today's "modern family" if they want to attract more high-net-worth clients.

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued its long-anticipated proposal for reforms to stabilize money market mutual funds and protect investors from the type of run that brought the sector to the brink of collapse at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday unanimously agreed to propose reforms for money market funds to make them less susceptible to runs, such as those that occurred in 2008 when Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck" and investors pulled $300 billion from other prime money market funds.

When advisors are ready to transition to a new custodian or broker-dealer, how do they transfer and seamlessly integrate client records into the new firm’s system?

New planners should be aware of these commonly cited irks by firm owners and take the necessary steps to avoid them.

Some of the U.S.’s largest providers of money-market mutual funds have sought a compromise on new regulation, making adoption of tougher rules for the $2.6 trillion industry more likely if far from a sure bet.