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    Andy Sieg out at Merrill, returns to Citi

    In a sudden shift, Merrill's leader of the past six years is heading back to rival Citi, where he will be head of global wealth and drive its expansion.

    By Victoria Zhuang
    Reporter
    March 30
    Merrill Lynch head Andy Sieg SIFMA
  • Wealth management
    From vintage cars to dinosaur fossils: the most popular assets to "own" through fractional shares

    Collectibles worth up to millions of dollars are securitized into thousands of shares that trade for as little as $10 a pop.

    By Érica Carnevalli
    Spring Reporting Associate
    March 30
  • Tax
    TikTok is spreading tax myths

    With input from tax influencers, a Keeper report discusses five enduring Tiktok myths about personal finances.

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    By Juliette Gaudemer
    Senior Reporter
    March 30
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  • Regulation and compliance
    Marketing trap: SEC warns new advisors of their compliance shortcomings

    Compliance experts say financial advisors who boast publicly about their investment prowess should make sure they have support for their claims.

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    By Dan Shaw
    Reporter
    March 29
    The Securities and Exchange Commission flag flies in front of a building.
  • Wealth Think From managing tenants to managing wealth: Helping clients 'retire' from active to passive real estate investing

    For clients who own investment properties, there are options that can make life easier.

    March 29
    David Wieland
    David Wieland
    Realized
  • Practice and client management
    5 graphs showing the pros and cons of RIA growth

    In the latest Independent Advisor Outlook survey from Charles Schwab, financial advisors shared the advantages and pitfalls of the industry's record RIA expansion.

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    By Tobias Salinger
    Chief Correspondent
    March 29
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  • Wealth management
    Not just for the uber wealthy: Alts are also for regular rich folks, report says

    Wealthy individuals, not institutional investors, will drive money into alternative assets, data provider Preqin says in a new study.

    By Lynnley Browning
    Managing Editor
    March 28
    A new study underscores a major shift in which well-heeled individual investors are flooding into private investments, not public stocks or funds.
  • Wealth management
    Women fund managers outperform their male peers, yet comprise fewer than 1 in 8 in the industry. Why?

    Only 13% of 242 active manager portfolios across the world had a woman as lead or co-lead in 2022, according to new research. The number has hardly changed over the past two decades.

    By Érica Carnevalli
    Spring Reporting Associate
    March 28
    Fund managers are overwhelmingly male, yet women make more money for their investors. It's a persistent fact of the financial services industry. Here's why.
  • Industry News
    Fastest-growing U.S. racial-ethnic group has been underserved by wealth management: Merrill study

    Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have unique planning needs that aren't always met in the industry.

    By Victoria Zhuang
    Reporter
    March 27
  • Retirement
    Ask an advisor: My clients think America has no future. What do I tell them?

    A financial planner's clients doubt they'll ever retire. How can he get them to save anyway?

    By Nathan Place
    National Reporter
    March 27
  • Financial wellness
    Women rely on each other for career and financial advice

    As their financial confidence grows, women want to help others succeed, too.

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    By Alyssa Place
    Editor-in-chief
    March 27
  • Practice and client management
    Shaping Wealth's Brian Portnoy on outsourced behavioral finance

    The firm launched a new service giving financial advisors more tools to guide clients through economic turbulence like the present moment.

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    By Tobias Salinger
    Chief Correspondent
    March 24
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  • Practice and client management
    Clients rank clear fees over investment gains, survey shows

    Understandable expenses came out ahead of every other "want" among customers, displaying how transparent costs are an important differentiator for advisors.

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    By Tobias Salinger
    Chief Correspondent
    March 24
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  • Practice and client management
    A female financial advisor's guide to succeeding in a male, white industry

    Marguerita Cheng's career path highlights the barriers many women and minorities face in wealth management – and how to push through them.

    By Érica Carnevalli
    Spring Reporting Associate
    March 23
  • Investment strategies
    Simplify's Harley Bassman on the case for convexity in choppy markets

    The active ETF firm's managing partner talks about the potential for options-based strategies in times when stocks and bonds are plunging.

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    By Tobias Salinger
    Chief Correspondent
    March 23
    Tobias Salinger and Harley Bassman
  • Wealth Think Why recidivist fraudsters fall through the cracks

    The SEC's case against a barred former broker shows why regulators and the industry often struggle to catch repeat offenders before they harm investors again.

    March 23
    Tobias Salinger
    Tobias Salinger
    Financial Planning
  • Wealth Think The mist of war: how to think about the banking crisis

    The more important an event, the more resistant it is to a simple, single, widely-accepted explanation

    March 23
    Brian Portnoy
    Brian Portnoy
    Shaping Wealth
  • Retirement
    4 reasons retirement readiness is declining

    The average American will only have 78% of the income they'll need in their golden years, according to a new study from Fidelity.

    By Nathan Place
    National Reporter
    March 22
  • Regulation and compliance
    Ex-advisor's hate crime highlights one state's crackdown on elder fraud

    A 22-year veteran broker is headed to prison for "intentionally preying" on seniors and families of children with special needs, the district attorney says.

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    By Tobias Salinger
    Chief Correspondent
    March 22
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    Digital onboarding, advisor-client matching: Merrill upgrades tech

    Bank of America's Merrill Lynch arm has been steadily rolling out digital products since 2020, most recently a program for advisors to produce short videos.

    By Miriam Cross
    Tech Reporter
    March 22
    Left to right: Andy Sieg, president of Merrill Wealth Management. Casey Franz, head of Merrill platforms and capabilities. Katy Knox, president of Bank of America’s private bank.
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CAN RIA GROWTH AND TRUE FIDUCIARY DUTY REALLY COEXIST?

Business goals cannot always put clients' best interests first. Here's why even the executives leading fast-expanding advisory firms say the critics have a point.

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