Finance

In an unusual development, LPL saw its advisor total decline slightly in the first quarter. And client assets brought in through advisor recruiting were down 55% year over year.

The new money will be used primarily to pay off investors who provided capital when Reverence first bought a majority stake in the former Advisor Group in 2019.

After experiencing $14 billion in assets outflows in the last quarter of 2025, UBS brought in more than $5 billion in the first quarter of this year.

In a Q1 earnings call, CEO Jim Cracchiolo emphasized the firm's recruiting approach that seeks a "built, not bought" advisor workforce.

Raymond James spent more than $100 million to recruit and retain advisors in its latest quarter. CEO Paul Shoukry says he'd rather do that than buy another firm.

Proceeds from the sale of Stifel Independent Advisors, aligned with declining litigation costs, helped drive firm-wide revenue to its second-highest level on record.

Ron Kruszewski led Stifel through a year that saw record revenue and strong advisor recruiting, but also a string of legal setbacks.

While the megabank had previously announced an executive shakeup, it revealed that Pershing is part of a newly combined business line moving forward.

CEO Brian Moynihan said the firm recruited twice the number of advisors it did a year ago and is making progress fighting advisor attrition.

Behavioral finance expert Tim Maurer shares how planners can adjust their language and approach to help clients move toward their goals.

Chief Financial Officer Sharon Yeshaya says financial advisors have $400 billion in assets since 2020 from clients who first came to Morgan Stanley either through its workplace or E-Trade businesses.

In the first quarter, the firm's FiNet channel for advisors working as independent contractors recruited advisors with $9 billion in client assets.

Top executive Jane Fraser dismisses speculation Citi wants to buy a U.S. retail bank while touting surging revenues for the megabank's wealth unit and the firm as a whole.

The rising tide of asset values led to compensation increases above 200% in some cases, but small ticks down for the chiefs of two firms.

The intersection between HNW clients and private markets is no longer about distribution, but integration.

Most financial advisors and their clients are well aware of the in-progress great wealth transfer. But they also admit they're not ready for it.

Ameriprise's proposal to raise CEO James Cracchiolo's total compensation by 8% would put him far ahead of many of his direct counterparts at regional firms.

Penny Pennington has presided over a wide-ranging overhaul that has seen forays into alternative assets and banking but also heightened rates of advisor departures.

PE money eviscerates an RIA's client-first culture, leading to advisor burnout and turnover.

There's "no free lunch investing in private assets," the research firm said in its latest study of semiliquid assets — released a week before Blue Owl permanently shut the gate of a closely watched private credit fund.