Private equity

Roughly 200 advisors at the firm are being named "founder specialists" for their track record helping entrepreneurs do everything from set up employee-benefit plans to take their firms public.

A consulting firm's report on the future of the channel reveals the ambivalence and frustration many feel about the impact of M&A consolidation.

The deal marks the purchase of one private equity-owned firm by a much larger one with majority private equity backing.

Amid a broad deregulatory push, industry watchdogs are seeking to lower barriers that now limit many alternative investment products to so-called accredited investors.

Despite the notable flows and valuations, some sellers get locked into an ill-fitting parent firm without many options for getting away.

The dilemmas from data, client demand and recruiting could provide opportunities for upstarts. Here's how wealth and asset management firms are responding.

PE funds have outperformed stocks over the past five, 10 and 25 years. But not in three of the past four. Here are some of the key caveats to the appeal of PE.

CEO Tony Miller thinks the financial backing Janney draws from the private equity firm KKR allows it to provide a full gamut of advisor support without losing its intimate feel.

Could an economic downturn slow the industry's record-setting pace of acquisition deals? Sure, experts say, but not by much.

Industry experts say Edward Jones was at risk of being left behind if it didn't offer access to investments that are becoming 'table stakes' for large wealth managers.