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More clients are also looking for financial advice within the custodian’s retail channel, which offers a robo advisor and full-service wealth management arm.

In two recent moves, the firm promoted one of its own to regional director and lured another back from AllianceBernstein.

Advisors will face a drastically changed industry landscape and Schwab, already an industry leader, will play an even more outsized role in the marketplace.

With COVID-19 cases soaring, a growing number of banks, including JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bancorp and Capital One, have pushed back target dates for bringing employees back to offices. Some are even allowing them to work from home indefinitely.

This year’s report on advisor compensation shows how RIAs and IBDs are attracting, retaining and rewarding talent.

In a bid to attract clients left out by AUM fees, IBDs are enabling advisors to take approaches first made popular in the full RIA channel.

Planners and experts dive into wirehouse pay, charging clients at a higher rate, emerging business models and other key issues.

Coronavirus has accelerated trends in advisor compensation as firms move to an ensemble model and enhance their benefits packages.

The outcomes of two elections in Georgia that are scheduled for Jan. 5 are expected to determine the balance of power in the Senate and may also have an impact on the kind of tax planning that accountants should be advising their clients to do.

The advisors know RBC’s Pittsburgh complex director from earlier in their careers, when all three men worked at Smith Barney.