Portfolio

As the standard-setting body for CFP professionals, the CFP Board has a critical role in shaping the financial planning profession. Along with the FPA, it has laid the foundation for the past 25 years for the recognition of financial planning and it has worked admirably in enforcing the standards for CFP professionals. …

The firms will be studied by U.S. regulators who are in the early stages of reviewing whether asset managers pose a potential risk to the financial system, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

The U.S. is in the midst of an economic revolution akin to the Industrial Revolution of the late 1700s and early 1800s, says Raymond James strategist.

After spending 13 months conducting “extensive due diligence research on the top 50 independent broker-dealers,” Householder Group decided that LPL, the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer, was best suited to support the firm’s “next chapter of growth.”

Over time, by angling a portfolio towards value-oriented stocks and small caps, investors will be compensated for taking on additional risk according to academic research.

Laurie Belew, an FPA member since 2004, will be the 2014 FPA president-elect of the association's NexGen community for members age 36 and younger.

More than three-quarters of U.S. public finance rating changes made by Moody’s Investors Service in the third quarter of 2013 were downgrades, reflecting concentrated credit pressures in some areas of the country even as economic recovery is seen on a larger scale.

Advisors can do a better job when it comes to preparing team members to succeed.

The company has a new deal with a Texas firm targeting ultrahigh-net-worth clients.

One planner says the strategy helps him connect with younger generations, avoid portfolio liabilities and improve transparency. Here are his suggestions.