Fee-based compensation

Here’s how to prepare your clients, and your own practice, if dark days come and stay.

Tru Independence is partnering with a marketing organization specializing in the commission-free protection space.

Commonwealth Financial Network is helping advisors convert to full RIA status and, in the opinion of advisors and executives, shedding its traditional label.

A multi-year reorganization of the firm has lowered head count by more than a quarter but boosted productivity by nearly a half.

Affiliating with a bigger platform is often a helpful and necessary step for indie advisors.

Advisors see raising their rates as a difficult topic to broach, but one RIA coach has a variety of methods for approaching it.

Sales of the fee-only products have expanded in a major way, but they have yet to win over advisors.

With the expenses no longer deductible, will clients ask for new planning options?

Times are good for RIAs, but a new study suggests firms should be monitoring fees more closely.

The ongoing shift away from commissionable products is driving major changes in the space.

Non-discretionary accounts may comprise the bulk of a client’s net worth, but are traditionally out of an advisor’s sphere of influence.

The firms with the highest percentage growth year-over-year are cutting their head counts and fueling the record level of M&A deals.

We give advice based on the intel we have, but not all clients are as up front as we are.

The change is needed to better align the interests of RIAs and the custodians that serve them.

Six fiduciary groups call on advisors press SEC to clarify the differences between advisory and brokerage business models.

Drop that Excel spreadsheet. Here’s why your business plan should fit on just one page ... in Word.

Firms of all sizes have helped push fee-based business above commissions as the industry undergoes a transformation.

There’s no playbook, but there is common sense, says XY Planning co-founder Alan Moore.

Fiduciary advocates lament the absence of the term from the SEC's rule, which they say fails to move beyond FINRA’s existing suitability standard, while the brokerage sector sees the proposal as a welcome jump in oversight.