Portfolio

Firms must invest in digital capabilities, says A.T. Kearney's Uday Singh, but they need to balance that evolution to allow for the human touch to remain in a central role.

The shift to passive has caused much soul searching, not to mention cost cutting, at some of the world's biggest money managers.

The clock is ticking for the onset of an incredibly far-reaching new fiduciary rule. Here’s who it helps — and hurts.

“Our growth is going to be organic,” says Raymond James Financial CEO Paul Reilly, who adds that he has “concerns” about the DoL rule.

New reporting requirements allow the feds to focus on hard-to-value holdings in order to boost taxable required minimum distributions.

Net income also dropped to $319 million, or 79 cents a share, from $373 million, or 89 cents, a year earlier, the firm reports.

Investors paid 61 cents for every $100 managed in 2015, down from 64 cents in 2014 and and 73 cents five years ago.

"Direct-to-consumer is not our model," says Scott Curtis, president, Raymond James Financial Services.

Seeing "great bargains," advisors have been upping client allocations to equities.

FINRA scolded the firms for alleged operational systems, supervisory and recordkeeping deficiencies.