RIAs

It took four years of dreaming, and nine months of late nights and hard planning, but now it’s real. Dave Grant is running his own RIA and he's taking us along for the journey.

U.S. Wealth Management, an independent network of wealth managers, has added two financial advisory practices to its platform, expanding its total recruited advisory and brokerage client assets.

Recruiting and hiring experienced, client-facing advisors with ultra high-net-worth experience is extremely difficult right now, with demand high and supply low.

Some of financial advisors' biggest preconceptions about switching to the RIA space -- from worries about insufficient AUM to fears about lower earnings and complex technology requirements -- were highlighted in a new report from TD Ameritrade. But the biggest myth, say advisors, is one that didn't even make the list.

Building your own business, even with a team of experts behind you, requires making tough decisions regarding resources, clients and employees. But most of all it requires leadership. Dynasty's CEO Shirl Penney offers a few lessons his firm has learned as it continue to build a business.

After LPL Financial agrees to pay FINRA case, compliance expert says there’s ‘no legitimate excuse’ for email missteps.

Nearly 200 financial advisors gathered at the Metropolitan Club in New York City with an aim to level the playing field within the industry.

Independent advisors should be preparing themselves more aggressively for sale and consolidation, a new study says.

“This is not an easy business,” Carson told an audience on Thursday of over 500 advisors at the 24th Peak Excell Meeting. “It is a rewarding but difficult business … and we have to constantly reinvest and reinvent.”

In five years, Stratos Wealth Partners has grown from a glimmer of an idea to a firm with 130 advisors nationally and over $6 billion in assets under management. The secret to its success: a hybrid RIA model.