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Martha King is proud of how far Vanguard's financial advisory division has come since the mutual fund giant launched its first ETF 13 years ago.

Several of Steve Janachowski's clients are wealthy professionals with high incomes, but a lot of retirement uncertainty.

Wealth management firms are fighting negative perceptions to recruit college students and other millennials to the business.

The industry takes on the challenge of mentoring young recruits by focusing on the senior wealth managers who guide them.

Michelle Mikos, the ETF business development director at Invesco Powershares, helped co-found Women in ETFs, a group dedicated to supporting women in the asset management industry.

Women must remain curious, have courage and bring confidence to the workplace in order to find and ensure success, says Maureen Leary-Jago, senior global advisor at MFS Investment Management.

As president of Chicago-based Ariel Investments, Mellody Hobson has dedicated herself to acting as an advocate of financial literacy and investor education.

Summit Financial, based in Westlake Village, Calif., is a primarily fee-based RIA offering clients investment management, insurance and retirement planning, says Triad, which offers advisory firms both a broker-dealer and a fee-based RIA multi-custodial platform.

New rules would bog down independent advisors in 'busywork' without producing enforcement gains, Brian Hamburger argues.

A group with $4 million in production moved between the wirehouses, saying it wanted access to the banking and lending capabilities at Bank of America.