Practice

CFPs aren’t excused from acting as fiduciaries — even if they work at a firm that requires them to recommend proprietary funds.

For its annual NOVA awards, NICSA recognized asset managers and executives for operational excellence and product development.

Blucora’s Avantax Wealth Management combines two firms that took competing approaches to serving tax professionals branching into wealth management.

Without the marital deduction, a certain category of married clients will have challenges inheriting property outright.

Paying down debt, downsizing and reducing spending are a few ways retirees can grow their finances.

In five bite-sized offerings, Chairman Jay Clayton fails to tell the public what it needs to know about RIAs vs. brokers.

There’s a showdown looming between financial advisors and the custodians that safeguard their clients’ money. It’s been brewing for some time, and the move by Charles Schwab on Tuesday to offer commission-free trading makes the clash all but inevitable.

Jud Bergman grew the largest TAMP from a startup to one of the leading firms in the industry, driving the profession forward, mourners say.

Clients should think of the years as empty buckets and keep the amount of income into each bucket level per year.

Although FINRA cannot investigate potential wrongdoing by these former employees, state regulators are expected to do so.