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From why one RIA created an all-female advisory firm in order to improve its service model to how companies are finding the best job candidates using social media, here are the notables and quotables from the past week's stories.

Under Obamacare, advisors can direct clients to health savings accounts, which they can use as medical IRAs.

Five former aides to Bernard Madoff who spent decades working for his firm were found guilty of helping run the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, a $17.5 billion fraud exposed by the 2008 financial crisis.

Over the next 12 - 18 months, the bank will introduce the U.S. version of the ultra-high-net wealth management program that its parent, BNP Paribas, rolled out in Europe and Asia.

This Social Security strategy can be beneficial for married clients, but has a unique opportunity for singles, too. Make sure you understand the rules.

Justin Reckers and Michelle Smith explain how and why to look into a wealthy client's assets during a divorce.

From FINRA fining two firms to U.S. listed ETFs seeing inflows of $27.94 billion, here's top news impacting mutual fund and ETF managers and providers.

FINRA found that LPL didn’t have a reasonable system in place to determine whether purchases of alternatives would cause a customer’s account to be unsuitably concentrated.

The dollar snapped six weeks of declines against the euro, the longest losing streak in more than six years, as the Federal Reserve signaled it’s moving toward raising interest rates.

FINRA is examining allegations that broker-dealers violated bond documents and municipal rules by trading bonds from Puerto Rico's recent $3.5 billion general obligation deal to customers in sizes less than the required $100,000 minimum denomination.