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As the financial planning industry nears a fee-only, fiduciary world, independent broker-dealers will face some important choices about their future business models.

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Find growth by using Maslow's hierarchy of needs to help set compensation policy.

If Cetera ties itself to a culturally unmatched firm, the roadblocks it creates for itself may be too much to overcome, an industry recruiter says.

The trickle of brokers leaving wirehouses for greater independence is quietly becoming a flood.

"I'm not right for you," along with other surprising things I tell clients.

Digital-first firms are applying artificial intelligence and machine learning in ways not seen in the financial planning software currently available to planners.

Shifts in the annual ranking of the nation's independent broker-dealers show how pressure on IBDs is intensifying.

Sometimes a planner's advice can go awry, despite best intentions.