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Middle-class Americans say paying off debt is their top financial priority. Financial advisors say a fixation on paying down debt can hurt in the long run.

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Bankruptcies at First Brands and Tricolor should be a wake-up call for banks exposed to the private credit market. Banks should treat indirect lending to shadow banks as a high-risk activity that demands active oversight.

Dr. Shlomit Wagman is a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Allan Lab. She previously chaired the Financial Action Task Force risk working group, held a senior role at the Egmont Group and MONEYVAL at the Council of Europe, and led Israel's Financial Intelligence Unit. She earned her Ph.D. and LL.M. from Yale Law School.

A dramatic rebound in clean-tech stocks has investors in the green economy hoping they can finally turn the page on years of punishing underperformance.

In an ever-expanding and constantly shifting profession marked by messy but important debates, can one of the field's most important organizations keep up with the times?

Michael Magnan, founder and CEO of AdvizorPro, is a leading wealth management and financial advisor intelligence platform for smarter prospecting.

Prior to AdvizorPro, he was the vice president of new product development for Nasdaq eVestment.

Across more than two years of advisor surveys, industry worries have evolved dramatically. Yet certain themes continue to capture attention.

Ulf Brüning is Principal and International Client Executive Leader at Global Risk Consultants based in Darmstadt, Germany. He has spent nearly 20 years with the company helping some of the world's most successful businesses identify risks and shape their risk management strategies.