RIAs

Restoring fee-model disclosures to its website is just the first step in correcting the organization’s “monumental failure,” according to fiduciary watchdog Ron Rhoades.

There is quite a bit of data indicating planners timed the markets poorly during the financial crisis. Let's not make the same mistakes again.

The decision does not diminish the board's conviction that consumers have a right to know how they are paying for products and services, writes the former board chairwoman.

A watchful planner might have saved a matriarch’s IRA from being allegedly pillaged by her son.

The custodian is introducing a subscription fee and zero-commission model for advisors.

“The only reason why I could see them doing that is shame,” one critic says of the move; the board calls it an important shift in the conversation about fiduciary care.

Wealth management firms have a “massive opportunity” to use new methods of reaching clients and the wider industry, FiComm Partners CEO Megan Carpenter says in an episode of Financial Planning’s In|Vest Podcast.

Almost 50% associate negative emotions with the practice. Here’s how planners can help.

Both recruits had a long history with wirehouses before trading them in for the regional broker-dealer.