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Business goals cannot always put clients' best interests first. Here's why even the executives leading fast-expanding advisory firms say the critics have a point.

Jed Finn says the firm's wealth unit could easily meet its operating margin goals if it simply stopped spending money to support advisors. But it's not about to do that.

Experts and advisors say they are cautiously optimistic about the future of small caps in the coming years.

More planners are dropping their FINRA registration but keeping some ties to independent wealth management firms once thought to be in a different channel.

Nicholas Takahashi and his team are accused of deliberately trying to poach the clients of a former colleague managing hundreds of millions in assets and producing more than $1 million a year in revenue.

Donald Trump discussed various items related to the Fed and its independence and stated he would not nominate Jerome Powell for another term as chair. Gennadiy Goldberg, head of U.S. rates strategy at TD Securities, discusses what a Trump presidency may mean for the Fed.

A new partnership with the tech firm Carta will position Morgan Stanley at Work to manage stock-compensation plans for more than 2,000 private companies that are moving toward IPOs.

To the Internal Revenue Service, Roger Ver symbolizes a new target in the digital age: a crypto holder suspected of failing to pay taxes after selling tokens.

Big firms would be paying $415,000 a year more by 2029, while most brokers would see a far smaller hit.

Zach and Barry Berg left the megabank for a newly rebranded advisory practice at the growing firm that now has 250 financial advisors and $38 billion in client assets.