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A $1 million producer has jumped from Morgan Stanley to Raymond James in Columbus, Ga.

The 12 largest bank broker dealers boosted their revenue by 8% to more than $1.5 billion in 2012, marking the fourth consecutive annual increase.

With the passing of Dodd-Frank, the SEC is paving the the way to adopt a uniform fiduciary standard for broker/dealers and investment advisors. Barry Glassman of Glassman Wealth says that there's no feasible way for brokers to uphold the same fiduciary standard to which RIA are held. He writes, "for them to come under the fiduciary standard as it currently exists, their businesses would have to split up into so many micro pieces that it would be disastrous for them." But the alternative, as it is being proposed, is for the very meaning of the fiduciary standard to change.

Happiness is a choice, according to Shawn Achor, author of "The Happiness Advantage", and for advisors, it may be a key to increased productivity and client satisfaction.

Advisors who don't prepare their firms for demographic changes, regulatory uncertainty, and succession planning are setting themselves, and their firms, up for failuae.

Most planners do a lot more than select investments. So how do you measure the value of providing financial planning?

RidgeWorth Investments is beefing up its sales team with the addition of Christopher Danos, Scott Goldberg and Mallory Carr.

In 2012, 36% of all participants in Vanguard retirement plans invested their assets in a professionally managed investment option, more than double that did so in 2007.

Athens, Ga.-based Stadion Money Management’s family of actively managed risk-based and target date retirement funds have found a new home on the Mid Atlantic Trust Company’s platform.

When you launch your own RIA everything matters. Even the color pink.