RIAs

Also this week, LPL picks up teams from Cetera and Ameriprise and Stifel draws from Merrill

Regulators discovered Julie Darrah had been siphoning millions from elderly clients after WEG bought her practice in 2021.

That giant question could bring any number of different answers based on a variety of factors. Here's how four experts break it down.

Gabriel Kaplan of Wealth Habits used to give his virtual assistant around 20 hours per month of work. AI tools in his tech stack have greatly reduced that amount.

Conventional wisdom says that financial advisors choose to work in areas based on factors like the presence of wealthy families. That doesn't seem to be the case in a post-pandemic world.

In a consolidating industry, perpetual growth may seem like the only way forward, but financial advisors still have options.

Industry groups argue a new rule under consideration would give brokerage firms new oversight responsibilities over unaffiliated RIAs — a contention FINRA denies.

Also this week, Hightower invests in a large RIA and Bernstein names a new head of wealth management.

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

For the past three years, Leslie Norman, chief technology officer for Dynasty Financial Partners, has been working to help build infrastructure to house the data used in the firm's tech stack.