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With a few simple tweaks to their strategy, planners can stop making flubs that can hurt their business — or even their personal brand.

Analysts and industry insiders are divided as to what impact the wirehouse's revamped plan may have on rival firms and breakaway advisers.

Hiring young planners is one thing but keeping them happy is another.

A recent agency memorandum cited several legal cases to back up its opinion.

The new hire will oversee manager research, the selection process and monitoring activities for the firm's Wealth Management Investments Group in New York.

The regulator cited security oversights that led to the theft of thousands of customer accounts.

William Heinzerling, who has led Stifel’s fixed-income business since 2009, is leaving the firm, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

President Tom Naratil says the firm will recruit less, spend more on advisers already at the firm and give additional power to branch managers.

The president makes good on his vow to kill legislation that would roll back the new regulations on retirement plans.

The regulator also says that the firm suffered from supervisory failures during a four-year period.

It's expected that digital platforms will help advisors focus their offerings to serve specific client segments.

The question a Cetera advisor says he never wanted to get from a client: "How come this is $88,000 instead of $100,000?"

While mostly the purview of the big firms, smaller RIAs can get in on the act too. But they need to do their homework first.

John Zimmerman, president of an asset-management firm, will lead a team of approximately 10 professionals.

The new regulations are “arbitrary and capricious," a trade organization asserts.

The recruit was overseeing 100 advisers responsible for $15 billion in client assets before joining the breakaway firm.

Prior to her financial services career, the recruit was a U.S. Army reservist working as a Russian linguist.

The Federal Reserve chairwoman was mum about when there might be another hike, which for some suggests she's not in a hurry.

Fixed-income yields may feel low, but foreign investors facing negative yields at home are making the U.S. markets popular.

The adviser claimed she was unjustly fired from First Citizens Bank for allegedly making unauthorized bonus payments to her two sales assistants totaling $9,000.