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Here we take a fresh look at our Top 50 and Next 50 Bank Advisors and list the top 25 based solely on percentage increase in production on a year-over-year basis.

The wealth management needs of highly successful technology entrepreneurs and innovators are different from other high-net-worth clients. Some are counterintuitive. Here's what advisors need to know.

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. public pension-fund assets grew by 4.2 percent in the last three months of 2013, boosted by stock market gains, the Census Bureau reported. Assets of the 100 largest public-worker retirement plans climbed to $3.19 trillion by the end of December, up $129.9 billion from September, the bureau said yesterday. The gains pushed holdings to the highest level since the government began tracking the data in 1968. …

Former UBS banker Mark Zaino walked out of court a free man Thursday after a federal judge chose to impose no further sentence on him for his role in rigging municipal bond contracts.

An advisor team which managed more than $600 million in assets at Merrill Lynch has left the firm to join Morgan Stanley.

Revenue rises 15% but product sales jump even higher, as a shift in compensation model holds back short-term revenue, the company says.

With tactical managers for nearly everything, the hardest part is evaluating these offerings for clients because they all sound great in theory. Here are some ideas on how to approach the evaluation process.

The constant monitoring is helping the bank keep tabs on customers' likes and dislikes — and stay on top of complaints.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to help protect investors from the risk of financial crises (among other things), so it's disappointing that the agency is planning to exempt many money-market mutual funds from regulations that would serve this purpose.

As investors dump emerging-market equities at an unprecedented clip, they’re turning more and more to frontier markets in search of the next growth story.