RIAs

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.

Finally, I was able to talk openly about how financial services can be more inclusive of women and people of color. But did I have to leave to do so?

RIAs already on the platform can stick with the old pricing model or transition to the new one.