Independent advisors

The founding partners spent a combined 54 years with the No. 6 IBD before launching the fee-only firm.

The former MetLife advisors had affiliated with three different IBDs over four years amid the increasing consolidation in the space.

Soon after shuffling C-suite, the independent broker-dealer brings on nine advisors while it continues hunt for a new CFO.

“I did it for the LOLs,” advisor Doug Boneparth says of his newly launched advisor-focused T-shirt business.

The Advisor Group IBD acquired Capital One’s in-branch brokerage unit last month, but it hasn’t stepped away from traditional recruiting either.

Here's what I've realized since I penned my original missive to the commission.

Missouri legislators inadvertently passed a law that would outlaw the Certified Financial Planner credential.

Firethorn Wealth Partners gets started with the help of tru Independence.

Leave this bad influence back where it belongs — in high school.

I’ve been watching, with increasing dismay, the trend of outside investors taking ownership of advisory firms.