RIAs

Most advisors continue to check in with phone and email messages and continue to do some work even while on vacation. Dave Grant shares the steps he took to completely cut himself off from work for a family vacation.

Many advisors are eager to find new clients, but not sure where to start. Dave Grant says prospective clients can turn up anywhere.

Advisors have some more competition brewing in the still-nascent online planning world.

Broker-dealer Waddell & Reed has recruited six new financial advisors, for a total $141.4 million in new assets under management.

With three more even larger deals expected to be completed by September, Carson Institutional could become a serious alternative to some of the leading roll-up firms in the nation.

Advisors in all channels saw fee income increase as a percentage of their compensation over the past year, according to a new study.

Financial advisors across the spectrum -- at registered investment advisors, wirehouses and independent broker-dealers -- are at a loss when it comes to understanding liquidity of exchange-traded funds, according to research from Cerulli Associates.

Independent broker-dealer Securities America is pressing ahead with its aggressive recruitment campaign, hiring three regional directors to help attract prospective independent advisors, the firm announced Tuesday.

Beefing up its presence in Sacramento and Newport Beach, Calif. Beverly Hills Wealth Management has lured the Sullivan Wealth Management Group from Morgan Stanley.

PIMCO last month teamed up with product and technology platform provider Aria Retirement Solutions and insurer Transamerica Advisors Life Insurance Company to market contingent deferred annuities to asset-based fee-only registered investment advisors. The name of the new product: RetireOne Transamerica II.