Industry

This is a critical time for the industry, with demographic and technological shifts creating tectonic pressures. Here are a few trends all advisors should follow.

Changes to the RIA Leaders rankings illustrate a hard truth about the industry.

In an effort to groom their top talent, some of the industry's biggest financial firms are offering training on how to look and sound like a powerful executive. But how do you tell Ivy League MBAs they need to work on their image?

Cerulli predicts that market share gains in the RIA and dually registered channels will likely come at the expense of wirehouses and independent broker-dealers.

The firm recruits a team with advisors from Wells Fargo and JP Morgan.

Three of the four formed a team with $218 million in assets under management.

RIAs follow the money. Here are the states with the most RIA firms.

The advisor was with Raymond James for five years without any customer complaints noted by FINRA.

The latest Schorsch bombshell "makes quality advisors super uncomfortable," says executive recruiter Mindy Diamond.

Profitability and control still rank high on the list of reasons advisors go independent, but the ability to have new and better systems – especially software – also plays a compelling part.