Portfolio

Robert Daly was part of a star team that left Morgan Stanley in 2023 to join First Republic and has since been barred from the industry.

Wealthy clients and other accredited investors should consider drilling deductions, opportunity zones and 1031 exchanges in 2025, an expert says.

Focus Financial Partners also merges two of its RIAs and Captrust buys up two practices together managing nearly $2 billion.

In December, the BlackRock Investment Institute stated that giving bitcoin a 1% to 2% weighting would produce a similar share of profile risk as the so-called Magnificent Seven technology stocks in a standard 60/40 portfolio.

The "model rule" for state regulators is meant to help clients distinguish between advisors who earn management fees and brokers who collect transaction-based commissions.

Like any ranking, the list from SmartAsset comes with some caveats. But these firms are catering to a lot of high net worth and ultrahigh net worth clients.

Getting healthy. Networking. Drawing the line on prices. Here are the ways wealth managers want to improve their practices — and their lives — in the new year.

A FINRA arbitration panel sided with a claimant who contended Wells and one of its advisors should have recognized telltale signs of elder fraud when their client decided to give away tens of thousands of shares of Aflac stock.

Kenneth Silva Ballard, an investment advisor for First Affirmative Financial Network, seeks to carefully order the "ingredients" of his tech stack so they work well together.

The tax-efficient, low-cost funds may have an even greater advantage over traditional mutual funds due to the IRS's lack of a definition for "substantially identical" securities.