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To move from focusing on pushing products to helping clients, firms need to aggregate and collect more data.

Customer experience metrics at wealth management firms have remained flat for the third year in a row, researchers found.

Advisors are craving mobile solutions, and vendors are looking to satisfy.

Workers should urge their employers to offer this savings option in their 401(k) plans to save for emergency and unforeseen expenses.

Wirehouses will begin transforming their business models to mirror the bank channel in many way, says industry recruiter Mark Elzweig.

Andy Sieg, head of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, will join the management team of the company, reporting directly to CEO Brian Moynihan.

The duo previously spent a decade and a half with Oppenheimer.

The rarely dinged firm joined peers grappling with two issues: mutual fund fees and supervision of advisors who've been sanctioned multiple times.

Data aggregators provide big advantages for RIAs, but criticism is mounting.

The program could see benefit cuts and undergo significant changes in the future, and this poses a problem for seniors who depend on it for their main source of retirement income.