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“He became very unreasonable.” It soon backfired when adviser Michael Martin bowed to pressure from a client to take on his father-in-law.

Implementation of fiduciary rule could drive more IBDs to seek safe harbor with large partners.

The group says it wanted to offer clients greater transparency.

The firm has collected more than $1.1 million in arbitration cases so far this year.

The new hires help the firm further expand its presence in the Southeast, an executive says.

The wirehouse pullback on recruiting is seen as an opportunity for regional firms, a recruiter says.

Planners using the latest digital tools report higher AUM than their colleagues, Fidelity says.

Advisers face fewer choices for clients as both the rule and SEC enforcement roil the market.

We reshuffled the ranking to list advisers by their production as a ratio of their AUM. Here are the top 25.

Even as the board seeks stricter fiduciary rules, there are concerns about loopholes on conflicts and commissions.