RIAs

November's hot stories were a wide ranging lot. Check out this month’s big winners.

HighTower has picked off $320 million New York-based Merrill Lynch team LCK Wealth Management for the partnership’s third addition in as many weeks.

An SEC advisory committee on Friday recommended that the commission appeal to Congress for authority to collect user fees from advisors to enhance its oversight of the RIA sector and enact rules to tighten regulation of broker-dealers.

The Financial Services Institute, a trade group representing independent broker-dealers and advisors, has elected two new IBD execs to its 2014 board.

Two Florida advisors have been charged with defrauding their clients, including many retirees, in an offshore fraud scam.

Why one firm scrapped its old minimum asset requirements and created a new client division.

G. Moffett Cochran, co-founder and chief executive officer of Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc., a New York-based firm catering to wealthy families, which went public in June, has died. He was 63.

The selling advisor tends to think their practice is worth a lot more than it may be. Here are five things to ask the selling advisor and the appraiser before you buy a practice.

Spurred by the brisk stream of breakaway brokers, HighTower has doubled its recruiting team and lured two new partnership teams: Andriole Group and Klein Wealth Management.

Three deal-tested wealth management firms offered advice to planners at Schwab Advisor Services' annual Impact conference.