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Investment capital has become widely available, but advisors still face challenges.

The No. 29 IBD has unveiled two significant recruiting moves in the past two months.

Despite Merrill Lynch’s recent decision to stay in the Broker Protocol, Greg Fleming sees a long struggle ahead.

Morgan Stanley and UBS's exit from the accord spurred a number of advisors to move up their planned career changes.

While there’s no fail-safe method for modeling the costs, a popular calculation may significantly under- or overstate the burden of tuition, room and board, Kitces.com research associate Derek Tharp writes.

To add insult to injury, these returns didn’t even come cheap. The average expense ratio was more than 1%.

The bank's retail brokerage business sold customers shares in mutual funds with front- or back-end sales charges when they were eligible for Class A shares that waived the upfront sales load, FINRA claimed.

Integration, scalability and service model are key to selecting a vendor.

Meet the best of the best in the bank channel. Read about how they approach their jobs, how they serve clients and how they made the list.

The top advisor this year, Brock Kidd from Pinnacle Bank, focuses on well-heeled clients and many of Nashville’s high-profile musicians.