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One source of an advisor's referability isn’t the advisor at all; it’s their support staff – be it client assistants, receptionists, para-planners, and other associates. Bill Cates says how your staff represents you can be a limiting factor in your referability. Check out some of his thoughts and ideas to help ensure all the members of your team make a positive contribution to your ability to generate referrals

The Securities and Exchange Commission would like to hear from advisors. That was the resounding message of a speech delivered Tuesday by Norm Champ, the director of the SEC's Division of Investment Management, the unit of the commission that oversees federally registered investment advisors.

When the Department of Labor produces its controversial proposal to extend fiduciary responsibilities to certain advisors to retirement plans later this year, the plan will come with a robust economic analysis making the case for new regulations, along with targeted exemptions to the rules, the senior official who is leading the effort said on Tuesday.

In May, stock and bond mutual funds, including exchange-traded funds attracted $56 billion of net inflows bringing total net intake for the first five months to about $350 billion, according to data from Strategic Insight.

In the first case of a state taking on bank consultants, New York regulators have banned Deloitte Financial Advisory Services from financial consulting for one year.

The nation's biggest banks are steeling themselves for a simulated cyberattack that organizers say will feel like the real thing.

The firm snapped up two Morgan Stanley advisors and former branch manager at Ameriprise.

The San Francisco-based regional bank says it plans to add as many as 100 people to the team over the next two years.

For a majority of financial advisors, life insurance planning isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Rising markets boosted the number and wealth of high net worth individuals to new highs, according to the World Wealth Report 2013.