Raymond James Financial

The paperwork of moving client assets in a transition is a chore for many advisors, but crucial to their success.

Although nearly all investors in the firm's new survey said tax efficiency was important to them, just over a quarter of them have consulted tax professionals.

Raymond James had scored the big team in May, before Securian's sale of its retail wealth business to Cetera closed.

As revenues fell for other companies, Raymond James' earnings reached new heights — including for its wealth management division.

The hybrid RIA is "out of the woods" after completing its giant custodial and brokerage transition in recent months, CEO Nate Lenz tells FP.

State regulators accused the wealth management giant of charging customers commissions of $75 or more for small equities transactions.

The firm's employee brokerage is bringing Alex. Brown, which it acquired in 2016, more firmly into its fold.

J.D. Power's latest study used a different scaling method that brought down scores across the industry among 15 major firms examined in the firm's annual poll.

Five financial advisors left Lakeland Bank and Raymond James for Affinity Federal Credit Union prior to the $1.3 billion acquisition of their prior institution.

Morgan Stanley supplanted JPMorgan Chase atop the rankings of the biggest compensation for head executives across wealth management.

Despite a nearly flat advisor headcount, interest income and fees lifted the regional brokerage's results, and the wealth business still added $21.5 billion of net new assets.

Only Charles Schwab out of a dozen major wealth management firms answered a series of questions about their clients' increasingly important liquid assets.

Liquid assets have often ended up at big banks or in sweep programs, which look much less attractive for clients' yields every time the Fed raises interest rates.

The regional firm said it was offering Instagram Professional to advisors and would roll out YouTube and Spotify podcasting programs later this year to help with client acquisition and retention.

The large brokerage reported record results for its wealth management business as it waits to bring several more financial advisors on board.

At Future Proof, the founder of Pearl Planning cited fixed-income experts whose panel discussions identified value to unlock amid tumbling returns.

Advisor Group, Ameriprise, Cetera, Commonwealth, LPL and Raymond James are getting bigger and streamlining a crowded field of business as they go.

The behemoth wealth firm said it recently brought in its largest recruited groups ever, a strategy that paid off as it contributed to record net revenue for the third quarter.

With the broker behind bars since last year, the firm has paid nearly $2 million in client restitution and a regulatory fine over its mishandling of the account.

Separate announcements by Concurrent Advisors and Private Advisor Group display why flexibility for financial advisors is valuable to growing RIAs.