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"Given all of the turmoil there, you need to have some consistency in leadership and [Roth] was it," one expert says.

Competing in his first triathlon helped John Pierce discover the direction he needed to succeed in wealth management.

Three advisers joined the firm's Advisor Select channel, where they are employees but can make additional business-decisions for their practice.

The number of Americans 65 and older is expected to nearly double over the next decades, which may be a boon for retirement planning.

The firm's newest recruits come from boutique brokerage J.P. Morgan.

"We see a narrowing of players," says Alois Pirker, research director for Aite Group's Wealth Management practice.

The adviser was also ordered to pay $300,000 to cover Wells Fargo's legal fees.

Algorithms are based on pure math and cannot be biased. Right?

Low-cost, online managed accounts may become table stakes for wealth management firms.

A third of investors in a recent Fidelity survey said they would switch advisers if they weren't active technology users.

For value-minded clients, here are the cheapest funds (10 basis points or less) with the best 3-year performances.

Because community property law can dictate who gets an IRA after death, it must be taken into account when a client names a beneficiary.

The firm's newest recruits generated $3.6 million in annual revenue.

The firm is recommending investors continue to buy five-year U.S. sovereign debt, even as the securities head for their worst month since February of last year.

The firm's expansion may also include assignments on private placements and unsecured-debt from real estate investment trusts, an executive says.

Risk aversion is what everyone thinks about first, and getting the lawyers involved is what everyone thinks about second.

Is Roth on his way out?

See which independent broker-dealer boasts a compliance staff of more than 500, and which top firms have fewer than 100.

A lawyer for the bank had argued in a federal court that the severance proposal was a confidential settlement offer that shouldn't be public.

Pathstone Federal Street-Convergent combo forms a new $10B UHNW powerhouse.