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A new PriceMetrix study outlines critical factors for keeping clients connected.

Want to be a divorce financial planner? Here are the top tips to help you be successful.

In the bank channel, fee-based business is the Woodstock of strategies--everyone says they're doing it, but few really are.

If you asked your clients to describe you and your practice in two sentences, would you like what they have to say? Would they even be able to describe you or your practice in two sentences?

The SEC is putting advisors on notice that its examiners will cast a wide net in their reviews of investment advisors over the coming year.

Joseph Dear, chief investment officer of California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. public pension plan, is taking leave to continue personal health treatments.

Commentary: Of the five economic proposals Jesse Myerson lists in Rolling Stone, one stands out, though not in a positive sense: that the U.S. start a sovereign wealth fund. It's a proposal that would prove problematic for capital markets, pose thorny conflicts of interest, and offer vast opportunities for cronyism and graft.

The CFP Board announced this week that it's shortening its CFP certification exam and transitioning to a computer-based testing platform.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the probe that led to his settlement with BlackRock Inc. over analyst surveys is looking at brokerage firms and individuals who provided nonpublic information that could have been used to trade.

FINRA alleges that the firms' advisors sold two types of highly risky ETFs that even they didn't understand.