Practice

The Taylor Group of Wells Fargo Advisors is led by nine advisors, all of them relatively young and many of them siblings.

As judges have shown in other recent cases involving UBS and Stifel, firms have a high bar to clear if they want an arbitration award vacated.

In an unusual development, LPL saw its advisor total decline slightly in the first quarter. And client assets brought in through advisor recruiting were down 55% year over year.

Still, the number of widows who leave advisors is three times higher than the industry average. It doesn't have to be that bad.

When the same buzzwords — "fiduciary," "holistic," "goals-based," "client-driven" — appear on most wealth firms' websites, they do little to help firms stand out in a crowded market, experts say. There are, however, tactics that work.

The influential planning entrepreneur and the FPA are leading an effort to change a tiered fee structure for continuing education providers that started three years ago.

The Trump administration's push for alternative investments in 401(k)s steamrolls ERISA law, argues Knut Rostad.

Schwab services 16,000 RIAs with 2,000 different fee structures. According to the industry's largest custodian, the exact costs come down to "a very personalized negotiation" with the firms.

For our Know Your Niche series, Steve Mason, with Bank of America's Private Bank, has developed a client base out of horse lovers like himself.

A federal judge finds that the embattled brokerage Alpine Securities' argument that FINRA should answer to the federal executive branch amounts to " wishful thinking" that "collapses under the weight of spiraling aspiration."