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As advisors increasingly move toward a fee-based business model, BIC looks at the most successful advisors in the channel. Here are the top 25 bank advisors based on their fee-based business.

Glenview Capital Management LLC Chief Executive Officer Larry Robbins gives his take on top hedge funds and his heavy emphasis on health-care stocks,

The biggest exchange-traded fund tracking the $3.7 trillion municipal-bond market sold this week at the highest premium to the value of its assets since May, an early sign that local debt may avoid a second year of losses.

Wells Fargo, the largest U.S. home lender, reported a 24% rise in fourth-quarter earnings as the bank extended more credit. The shares slipped as margins narrowed and mortgage applications waned.

Financial services firms' 2014 plans center on product lines, distribution capabilities and technology, according to a survey done by Cerulli Associates.

The contraction in the U.S. market for borrowing and lending securities amid rising interest rates and heightened global bank regulation will increase this year, according to Fitch Ratings.

JPMorgan Chase's quarterly profit fell 7.3% on $2.6 billion of settlements tied to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme as rising legal costs ended the firm’s three-year streak of record annual earnings.

Banks could save money -- and avoid having to sell to, or buy other, banks -- by sharing the costs of compliance checks, account databases and even branch space, a new report from the accounting firm EY suggests.

UBS AG, Switzerland's largest bank, expects to boost client assets in the U.K. this year even as Swiss competitors try to break into London's $1.2 trillion private wealth market to help counter withdrawals at home.

Many considered Dec. 31, 2013, the final date for year-end tax planning, but there are numerous planning actions that you can take in 2014 retroactive to 2013. Here's a quick and easy guide to help with planning.