RIAs

The big questions firm owners should be asking in a booming M&A market.

Planners looking for fewer restrictions and regulation are steadily leaving wirehouses.

Global banks including UBS and Barclays have been expanding teams that serve some of their richest clients.

Commission officials put the industry on notice about self-reporting: financial advisors must comply or face harsh punishments.

‘The firm gives advisors the ability to choose who they do business with and doesn’t put limitations on minimum account size,’ one advisor says.

The wirehouse is charting a litigious course since breaking with the Broker Protocol, and some observers think the scorched-earth campaign could harm its reputation.

Of the 46 advisors newly appointed as managing directors at the firm, only three were women.

Focus Financial adds a $4 billion wealth management firm to its expanding roster.

One recruiter argues the firm is losing talent because it will eventually exit the Broker Protocol.

At Merrill "it felt like we shifted away a little bit in recent years from the core focus of wealth management," advisor Matthew Spradlin explains.