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Several factors are pressuring margins for everyone in planning, says LPL Financial's Bill Morrissey.

Employee Stock Ownership Plans can provide company owners with a long-term exit strategy that offers cash flow, tax advantages and an opportunity to pay back employees.

Are advisors doing clients a disservice when they prepare to hand over the reins?

A former Merrill Lynch advisor has joined Abbot Downing, a unit of Wells Fargo that serves ultra-wealthy clients.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren said brokerage regulation needs a “major re-examination” to prevent funding shortfalls during a crisis and that brokers should have higher capital requirements.

The pitches are persuasive. Workers who leave jobs with the federal government transferred $10 billion last year out of the Thrift Savings Plan.

'Our main objective is organic growth,' says Larry Roth, chief executive of Cetera Financial Group.

HighTower recruited a Merrill Lynch advisor team managing $800 million in assets.

Advisors must make several key business decisions to go independent, says Shirl Penney, founder of Dynasty Financial Partners.

As a FINRA task force is scheduled to review the regulator's arbitration process, critics are charging that firms are using U5 termination forms to sully advisor reputations.