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Raymond James spent more than $100 million to recruit and retain advisors in its latest quarter. CEO Paul Shoukry says he'd rather do that than buy another firm.

Jess Polito of Turkey Hill Management says she believes her firm is the only M&A advisory firm that exclusively uses retainer fees, rather than commissions.

Proceeds from the sale of Stifel Independent Advisors, aligned with declining litigation costs, helped drive firm-wide revenue to its second-highest level on record.

Robert Kazdin worked for 20 years in housing finance and mortgage regulation. He served as a director of mortgage credit pricing at Fannie Mae, as a senior examiner at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, or FHFA, and as a regulator at the Office of Thrift Supervision. He is currently retired.

Davide Santonocito is an AI Engineer and QA expert at Sollers Consulting, specializing in ensuring the reliability, performance, and governance of agentic AI systems in insurance.

Financial advisors can differentiate themselves by knowing when to apply the tax-friendly strategy — and when to take a pass.

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said that opacity of the private credit market and a flurry of redemption requests are raising concerns about defaults.

Adam Cox led the wealth management division of a regional bank for 10 years. His lack of an ownership stake in the business he'd spent so much time building eventually drove him to seek independence.