RIAs

The Atlanta-based IBD, which offers advisory firms both a broker-dealer and a fee-based RIA multi-custodial platform, is closing in on a record $20 million in new revenues this year.

Advisors need to face a hard truth: Independent RIAs have lost this round. Fortunately, there are other, better ways to set yourself apart.

FINRA arbitration panel sides with a former Commonwealth Financial Network client who claims he lost his retirement savings due to bad retirement planning advice.

A deal with Strategic Wealth Partners, outside Chicago, was Focus's sixth of the year, bringing in $1.4 billion.

Frank Campanale, CEO of Lebenthal Wealth Advisors and a former executive at Smith Barney, spells out the key elements in firm's growth plans and recruiting strategy: brand, equity stakes and passion.

Washington Wealth Management lured away an advisor managing $100 million in assets and who had been at the wirehouse for three decades.

Record crowd focuses on the future of financial advice.

Competitors are 'welcome to call' clients, says new CEO Douglas Wolford, who replaced David Zier after the latter's suicide -- but none have left, he says.

"We have to continue to grow and we'll be looking at acquisitions, mergers, tuck-ins and roll-ups, all of the above," says Mark Allen, president of Nebraska-based Allen Capital Group.

Convergent CEO David Zier's death followed inquiries into his management of an outside fund, according to Chairman Steve Lockshin.