Industry

Meg Carpenter, founder and CEO of FiComm partners, discusses the difficulties RIAs have in marketing themselves, the ways in which these entrepreneurs can build on their strengths to reach clients, and how to harness technology to boost their own profiles.

An innovative hybrid firm's new brokerage displays how the industry is placing advisory business at the center of its well-financed plans for the future.

Cool pitch decks and buzzy phrases alone won't get you there, but letting prospective clients see who you really are might.

The firm isn't "shelving" its offering – it's waiting for Wall Street to emerge from the worst IPO landscape since 2009.

The influential organization of fee-only planners is seeking to boost its membership further and take a lead role in the fiduciary debate.

After a longstanding relationship, the New York alternative investments firm buys a chunk of the Swiss bank.

The word 'broker' carries negative connotations. But to many wealth management professionals, commission-based shops are valuable to a transforming industry.

Buyers and sellers are overhauling their firms by folding in accounting and newly-launched independent advisors.

Members of the influential fee-only planners group paid tribute to the growth and professionalism during their outgoing chief's tenure.

Two RIA acquisitions added $7.7 billion in client assets to the Toronto-based firm's U.S. platform in Q2.