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Online competitors like Wealthfront and Betterment are taking issue with Schwab's characterization of its automated investment service as cheaper, better and not just skewed to millennial investors.

The U.S. has a record 10.1 million millionaire households, a Spectrem Group study shows.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's second arbitration study indicates the bureau's intent to regulate financial institutions' inclusion of clauses that prevent customers from suing.

Some strategies aimed at reducing a client's FICA tax burden could actually sabotage future Social Security earnings. Here's what advisors must understand.

The wirehouse grabbed a group that produced $2.5 million at RBC.

Differences are to be expected, but the gaps were large enough to worry analysts. The big question now for JPM is whether the results could affect its comprehensive capital analysis and review due out later today.

Tax season isn't supposed to be fun. But if your civic duty feels extra unpleasant this year, you're not imagining things. Here are four reasons this tax season really is the worst.

Client behaviors, preferences and expectations have undergone some big changes. Old ways of engaging with prospects and clients fall flat in this new world. That's why reinventing their client engagement models - and the supporting business processes - must be a high priority for asset management and wealth advisory firms.

Why companies should have to offer low-cost funds in 401(k)s; Plus three secrets to maximizing Social Security spousal benefits.

As federal regulators mull rules to extend anti-money laundering requirements to advisors, industry members might want to act on their own to set up formal programs to screen for suspicious activity.