Northwestern Mutual

Despite notable rises and falls in the rankings, the study’s findings about comprehensive advice give every wealth manager an opportunity for improvement.

Advisor Kristin Bartlow brings a team of four managing $195 million in client assets to Journey Strategic Wealth.

Part of a push by the company to open offices in underserved areas, Anthony Williams aims to make it “a pillar” of the community, he says.

Necessary new approaches include better cultural understanding, more flexibility for new entrants and more outreach, advisors and executives say.

The firm’s new technology will allow advisors to “get into the weeds” of underlying portfolios with clients.

Northwestern Mutual’s practices raise difficult questions about the nature of retail advice just as wealth management faces greater scrutiny under new rules.

In a sign of long term changes and pivotal questions for the industry, the difference between the amount of fees and commissions in the sector has nearly doubled.

Financial advisors, broker-dealers, custodians and other firms are trying to do their part amid a public health and economic crisis.

The largest enterprise under LPL’s biggest OSJ is getting even bigger, after adding its sixth advisor of the past 12 months.

If these black financial advisors meet the goal, it will defy the industry's stark racial disparities: early career growth at that level just “doesn't happen in our demographic,” one partner says.

Among the new recruits is an 11-person team.

The ex-Northwestern Mutual advisors dropped their broker registrations, selecting the TAMP and platform’s services in the process.

With tens of thousands of certificants affiliated with giant BDs, the documents required by the new standards are making their conflicts of interest plain as day.

Female-founded startups receive less that 3% of all global funding, a report found.

The insurer lost four prominent female executives earlier this year in departures CEO John Schlifske called “a step backward.”

Bleakley Financial has recruited advisors with $750 million in client assets since January 2018 alongside LPL’s substantial recent grabs.

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

Despite a great year, firms don't see fit to rest on their laurels. Instead, they're preparing and adjusting to falling traditional revenue and rising expenses.

With transparency about conflicts on the rise even as it varies by firm, critics question whether clients really understand complicated technical documents.

Bleakley Financial has launched its eighth office under its affiliation with LPL and Private Advisor Group.