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Consider every encounter at work and in your community an opportunity to create a positive reputation for your business.

Long-term care costs are rising steadily nationwide, but the costs vary significantly across the country, within each state and by the type of care needed.

Using insights from behavioral finance, advisors can better help clients answer the question: What do you really want your money to do?

Steven Franke was the top program manager in our inaugural list in 2008. Moving to Allegacy Credit Union last year, he’s instilling winning strategies again with his new team.

Workers aged 65 and above accounted for more than 16% of the labor force in 2010, up from 12% in 1990, according to the Census Bureau--and many of them have no plans to quit.

Advisors should understand the personality styles of their branch managers for financial success, job satisfaction and comfort within their own firm.

New products, under the broad label of liquid alternatives, bring a value proposition of greater opportunities for diversification coming from sources that are largely uncorrelated to the equity and fixed income market, at least by historical measures.

Bill Gross said he wouldn’t hire Ben S. Bernanke as an advisor. He’d rather read the former Federal Reserve Chairman’s blogs and tweets.

Teams can be more productive, acquire more clients and tend to have better long-term growth, but joining or building a group that will thrive is no small task.

Given the unpredictability in forecasting, betting on rates rising can be just as risky as taking the opposite stance.