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Now that profits are at record highs, financial advisors' next priority should be better people management, according to the 2013 FA Insight Study of Advisory Firms: People and Pay. Cost control, solid productivity and soaring client profitability helped the typical advisory firm reach a profit margin in excess of 20% in 2012, the highest margin in the survey's five-year history.

The country’s 20th-largest independent broker has a new name and a new pitch to independent advisors.

In working on retirement plans with your clients, the most vital strategies can be playing defense and protecting them from their own temptations.

Ten years since the launch of the first equal-weight index, some persistent misconceptions about such indices remain. Here's a look at the role equal-weight strategies can play in a diversified portfolio.

If you have clients who are struggling with the regular investment goals you’ve designed for them, and just can’t seem to understand where the problem might lie, it could be time to ask this question.

Don Quattrucci rejoined BNY Mellon from U.S. Trust, where he most recently served as managing director and market investment director for two years.

Oppenheimer & Co., a unit of Oppenheimer Holdings announced the appointment of Doron Barness to Head of New York Institutional Equity Sales Trading, working out of the firm's New York headquarters.

Regulatory costs are devouring a greater portion of revenue, time and resources at small banks.

In a round of summer hiring, the firm brought in four advisors with a total of over $500 million in assets.

The "do it yourself" investor crowd is not exactly new. But now it has a newfound source of power. A new tool on the market from Motif Investing makes it easier than ever for individual investors to create their own ETF-like investment funds.