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What impact can "Promoted Tweets" have on your website? One advisor was brave enough to test the waters.

Northwestern Mutual, the nation’s 7th largest independent broker-dealer by total-revenue, announced Wednesday it has hired more than 1,100 financial representatives so far this year, and nearly 3,000 financial representative interns.

F-Squared Investments has appointed Paul Gamble as head of F-Squared Retirement Solutions, responsible for F-Squared's customized and private labeled target date strategies and funds, collective trust funds and sub-advisory partnerships in the retirement market.

Massachusetts sent subpoenas to 15 brokerages including units of Bank of America Corp., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co. as it investigates alternative- investment sales to seniors.

A FINRA panel ruled Wells Fargo’s lack of supervision allowed a third party to syphon funds from a client account.

Francis Picarelli has been promoted from vice president to senior vice president at consulting shop Segal RogerCasey.

Banks could boost the profitability of their wealth management programs if they integrated their private banking, trust and brokerage businesses.

Three new reports suggest that the wealth management industry still needs improvement — and hint at a slowdown after recent growth.

One key element separates the fastest-growing RIA firms from their peers, according to a new Schwab report.

One expert predicts that at least half of the top 30 U.S. banks will move advisors to a salary-based compensation system in the next two to three years.