Independent advisors

Tapping a relationship that was around 15 years strong, Sanctuary won a legacy Merrill Lynch team in the competitive market for independent advisors. Here's how it happened, Sanctuary president Vince Fertitta told FP.

The banking giant's asset and wealth management arm boasts more than $4.3 trillion of client assets.

The support firm for RIAs sees opportunities to position itself between buyers and sellers of firms.

Investors who fled equities during last year's rout have not benefited from subsequent recovery.

In a new risk alert, the Wall Street regulator warns about lapses with cybersecurity, email and third-party vendors.

New portfolios from BlackRock, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price and Clark Capital underscore the Chicago-based firm's ambitions with independent advisors.

Many advisors have clients who took out the forgivable loans. Some wealth management firms did the same. Three years after the government doled out more than $800 billion in mostly-free cash, here's what's happening.

The regulator's latest staff bulletin also calls on planners at hybrid firms to always be clear about if they're wearing their broker or advisor hat.

In letters to the FTC, financial planners contend that noncompetition and nonsolicitation provisions can leave them 'handcuffed' to bad firms.

The sale of $15 billion Grove Point Financial comes as smaller broker-dealers confront market headwinds.

Investor advocates argue that Massachusetts was within its right to hold broker-dealers to a higher standard.

Researchers find that performance expectations are highest among people who invest in environmental, social and governance causes for moral reasons.

The revisions come two weeks after the broker-dealer regulator made changes to a rule to loosen in-house inspection requirements for residential offices.

In setting up a breakaway firm, a group of advisors tried not to step over lines when recruiting colleagues and clients. But a lawsuit argues they still went too far.

The line between independent firms and wirehouses is beginning to blur, causing advisors to rethink their options, writes recruiter Louis Diamond.

Giving serious thought to plan benefits and costs early on will attract top talent and establish a workplace where employees know their personal well-being is valued.

The $2.4 billion request for the Wall Street regulator would put 1,434 officers on the compliance beat, up 4% from seven years ago.

Bigger, better, faster is a label all giant companies want, especially in the hyper-competitive space of managing money for wealthy clients.

Cetera director of regulatory affairs sees Reg BI as a key way to preserve investor choices.

In an unusual case, regulators have accused a Boston investment advisor of violating his fiduciary duty by putting his clients into high-fee retirement products.