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Envestnet's acquisition of Finance Logix marks the latest in a string of big firms snapping up advisor-focused technology providers.

Openfolio has quickly grown into a community of more than 25,000 investors, all drawn to the idea of seeing what various members are investing in and comparing portfolios to measure how they are doing.

M&A deals pit rapacious firm founders against undervalued junior associates, reducing planners to "idiots" and "pubescent teenagers," new report says.

As new state regulations loom, experts caution that examiners already expect advisors to have a business continuity and succession plan in place.

An in-person getaway offered substantial benefits to members of an online, geographically diverse mastermind group. The group had a few tips for other advisors.

We've restructured our planning sessions so that our advisors team up with a second CFP to deliver more robust advice. Here are three ways the approach pays off.

"The bar of expectations among advisors has been raised by their experience with a best-in-class website," says the author of a new report in which advisors ranked fund managers.

A recent coaching seminar has me recalibrating my understanding of practice management. You may need to adjust yours, too.

The commission alleges that the advisor and his associates defrauded investors by concealing key information about unpaid debts in two rounds of securities offerings in farm loan ventures.

Three advisors were stripped of their CFP designations, 13 were suspended and seven were publicly admonished for technical infractions.