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The firm expects shareholders will save an estimated $3.2 million, annually.

The firm plans to focus on raising money for products that lock up capital for several years, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

“The amount of capital available to this industry is small relative to the size of the need,” says one new lender.

Mainstays of the sector like Commonwealth, Cambridge and Northwestern Mutual are contributing to it, but smaller firms are also driving change.

While income growth and declining mortgage rates have boosted affordability nationwide, not all markets are experiencing the shift.

The No. 1 IBD aims to triple its potential target market reach, in part by adapting some aspects of employee services to independence.

The regional BD opened its third new location in Texas this year.

The new rule package will require firms to take a hard look at their compliance programs.

The wirehouse loses four more advisors to the regional BD.

It was accused of pushing nearly 250,000 unaware customers into delinquency.

Executives say the race to zero in fund fees and improvements in data and analytics are among the top issues impacting asset management.

A young advisor put her faith in letters and numbers until a client set her straight.

Activist investors have taken large stakes in at least 100 of the products so far this year.

“I think we forget what it was like when we were the associates,” says one firm’s co-owner.

High-AUM RIAs at TD Ameritrade’s Elite LINC tell how they grew their firms when they were starting out.

For First Republic, “the pain index is likely somewhere between excruciating and traumatic,” says one expert. But few realize how much the bank got for its money.

The firm had cut back on hiring efforts in 2016, citing exorbitant costs.

Firms that generate 75.5% profit margins are hiring, buying and automating, according to FA Insight.

The firm calls the lawsuit's claims "baseless."

With the reductions, nearly all of the firm’s index funds will have total net expenses lower than comparable Vanguard products.