Practice

A lawyer in New York needs help paying off her loans from law school. Are educational assistance programs the answer?

The "model rule" for state regulators is meant to help clients distinguish between advisors who earn management fees and brokers who collect transaction-based commissions.

Like any ranking, the list from SmartAsset comes with some caveats. But these firms are catering to a lot of high net worth and ultrahigh net worth clients.

Getting healthy. Networking. Drawing the line on prices. Here are the ways wealth managers want to improve their practices — and their lives — in the new year.

A FINRA arbitration panel sided with a claimant who contended Wells and one of its advisors should have recognized telltale signs of elder fraud when their client decided to give away tens of thousands of shares of Aflac stock.

Kenneth Silva Ballard, an investment advisor for First Affirmative Financial Network, seeks to carefully order the "ingredients" of his tech stack so they work well together.

From LPL Financial's legal challenges to a continuing education scam that involved more than 60 brokers, these are the stories our readers flocked to in 2024.

The SEC should amend the regulation in order to help workers who can't afford to wait for an IPO to access the value of their equity.

Edward Turley, a once high-flying advisor booted from the industry in 2022, is at the center of a dozen client settlements costing JPMorgan upward of $63 million.

The No. 1 state effectively charges 1.88% on the value of a residence, according to a realty firm's analysis of a frequent and growing concern among clients.