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Advisers aren't being eliminated. But they should understand the trends transforming the industry.

With cybercrime an increasing threat to small financial firms, it’s important to have a comprehensive defensive program in place.

Both recruits have more than two decades of experience.

The biggest advisers to go it alone this year managed over $13 billion in client assets.

Margins are down and expenses are up, Fidelity's new benchmarking study finds. Pricing models need to be re-visited.

The bank hired its first chief investment officer seven months after recruiting the former leader of a family office to a new post as national head of investments.

Dan Moisand's firm joins the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard's new listing. Moisand is a former CFP Board official and ex-president of the FPA.

The new hires opened two offices for the regional BD.

The fast-growing firm has recruited 25 advisers this year, and is affiliated with Raymond James.

Lawyers have filed FINRA arbitration claims alleging the bank deprived them of their bonuses.

Her proposal to expand a probe into possible sales abuses was met by resistance from an executive who didn’t want to alienate the bank.

Here's how clients can boost their returns before the president-elect enacts the reforms he's promised.

"I lose years of my life. They can settle, write a check and move on," says an adviser whose book of business dropped by $40 million after he alleges he was wrongfully terminated.

The allegations come a year after the firm paid over $300 million to resolve regulators' claims that it failed to tell wealthy clients it was steering them into its own funds.

Will Chief District Judge Barbara Lynn be the first to rule against the regulation? Opponents of a case in Texas federal court have high hopes.

Help clients avoid costly mistakes when enrolling in these essential programs.

A 7.3% hike warrants attention, and advisers can help ease the transition.

The legal setback for the rule's foes still leaves three ongoing court challenges, as well as an uncertain future after Trump takes office.

The wirehouse will leave its core pay grid untouched for 2017.

Many would argue the retirement fund is archaic, inelegant and user-unfriendly. Is it time for something new?