Corporate governance

For the first time, the ranks of the top 25 firms according to their annual business include single entries for IBD networks.

This interactive tool provides the full collection of data from Financial Planning's 35th annual study of the largest firms in the space.

The judges sought innovations that would make a lasting impact on the business of financial advice. We found them.

The insurer-owned IBD identifies leaders in target markets as it offers independence “with a hug,” according to its head of recruiting.

The company's new service provides leads — and now phone calls — from its 65-million person audience to advisors.

Bankers spent Monday cleaning up damaged branches, wondering if their small-business clients will need more emergency aid and contemplating how the racial and economic inequalities highlighted by days of violent protests nationwide can be corrected.

LPL advisor Kashif Ahmed tweeted his condition from the emergency room then focused on recovering, knowing his firm could run without him.

The IBD network had been preparing for disruption, CEO Adam Antoniades says, and it has the financial flexibility it needs to boost financial advisors’ practices.

The privately held firm recruited more than 160 reps in the first quarter on the strength of its balance sheet, CEO Amy Webber says.

The No. 1 IBD added Securities America’s largest enterprise, whose founder says the firm’s new private equity-backed owner made him uncertain about the future.

An RIA platform launched by compliance professionals is growing by offering a smaller home for wirehouse and reverse breakaways, Advisory Services Network COO Cindy Halpern explains in an episode of Financial Planning’s Podcast.

Financial advisors, broker-dealers, custodians and other firms are trying to do their part amid a public health and economic crisis.

My training in virology, laboratory pathology and emergency medicine gives me a different perspective of how to manage our society’s new path forward, writes M.D. and planner Carolyn McClanahan.

CEO Dan Arnold says the pandemic “will create some structural change across the market and the industry.”

The firm is making another targeted purchase while rivals seek to gain ground with their own deals that reshape the sector.

Unlike recent affairs that were marred by protests, this year's meeting — held online because of the coronavirus outbreak — went smoothly as investors overwhelmingly approved the bank's slate of directors and executive compensation plan.

A lull due to the coronavirus appears to be over, according to the No. 1 IBD’s top recruiter. The firm is still competing against a slew of rivals for ex-wirehouse reps.

CEO Larry Fink has provided the federal government insight on coping with the fallout from the pandemic.

The firms have grabbed some three-fourths of the announced incoming advisors, as the pandemic cuts into valuations and casts uncertainty.

There are important distinctions between 2020 and that meltdown 10 years ago, writes John Taft.