Practice

Most financial advisors don't spend enough time on the two most critical tasks to help them grow their business: rainmaking and client interaction.

Touchstone Investments has hired BNY Mellon as its accounting and administration, transfer agency and blue sky service provider for four additional Touchstone funds.

Advisors and brokers working in teams made 32% more in compensation than those going it alone, according to the new Broker and Advisor Sentiment Index study from Fidelity Investments.

Michael James, a former wealth strategist in Goldman Sachs' mid-Atlantic region, has joined the Philadelphia office of Glenmede, an independent investment and wealth management firm, as director of family wealth advisory.

Before embarking on first or next dance with the regulators, Jennifer Woods Burke, President of CompliGuide provides her thoughts on the top 7 ways that firms sabotage themselves.

Fed up with changes in infrastructure, two veterans with more than two decades at Morgan Stanley move to Ameriprise.

Based on conversations with more than 20,000 professionals, a new white paper proposes five natural starting places where planners can look for members of the 80 million-person-strong Generation Y, which will account for the next generation of financial planning clients.

RBC Wealth Management has snapped up a three-member wealth management team from Merrill Lynch in Colorado.

Mutual fund executive John Mattera, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., pleaded guilty this week to three criminal counts, including conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud, in connection to an $11 million scam involving the sale of non-existent private shares in companies such as Facebook (FB) and Groupon (GRPN).

Former Navy Seal imparts management lessons for business and everyday life.