RIAs

The hybrid structure confers higher contribution limits, allowing savers nearing retirement to quickly build up balances.

Plus, the world's first AI-powered investment assistant, Opto Investments news and BlackRock's fixed income SMAs come to Orion.

In setting up a breakaway firm, a group of advisors tried not to step over lines when recruiting colleagues and clients. But a lawsuit argues they still went too far.

Lehman & DeRafelo offers another example of a big RIA seeking a larger partner despite turbulent economic conditions and some signs of an M&A slowdown.

The line between independent firms and wirehouses is beginning to blur, causing advisors to rethink their options, writes recruiter Louis Diamond.

The firm will compete against a growing group of rivals, but its founders expect to attract a billion-dollar advisory firm by the end of the year.

The $2.4 billion request for the Wall Street regulator would put 1,434 officers on the compliance beat, up 4% from seven years ago.

The forced merger with rival UBS was "the best among bad solutions."

Although the new leaders at Merrill could offer advisors new hopes, the firm could well suffer further attrition after Andy Sieg's defection last week to Citigroup.

Some 70 million Americans born after 1996 stand to inherit huge sums of money in the coming decades. But they think about investments, saving and spending in ways often unfamiliar.