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An industry recruiter says two big questions remain: Can Raymond James keep up its recruiting momentum after most Commonwealth advisors are settled? And how will LPL Financial respond?

Talking about the importance of one type of tax planning or another is far different from implementing all of those strategies across the industry.

Gryphon Wealth will keep Wells Fargo Clearing Services as its custodian in a deal that brings in tech support from TradePMR, a firm acquired by Robinhood in 2024.

Even if they must refer wealth families to a tax professional for a generation-skipping or dynasty trust, financial advisors can play a valuable role.

Justin Brownlee started an RIA targeting energy, oil and gas employees. His hyperspecific marketing tactics have helped grow the firm into a thriving niche.

Firms with big recruiting loan balances are often the ones with the most success hiring advisors from industry rivals. But the numbers also suggest they're offering increasingly generous deals.

Financial planners who joined the Transparent Advisor Movement's first "Flat Fridays" meetup touched on the difficulty of explaining the industry to consumers.

Employees can make nominations for Financial Planning's Best Workplaces in Money Management, a research-driven program recognizing firms' practices and cultures.

The program recognizes registered investment advisory practices that provide positive workplace environments and excellent benefits, according to their employees.

The SEC is now focused on "quality of cases versus quantity," the SEC chairman said during a discussion held as part of the 2026 FINRA Annual Conference.

Financial planning can be complex to regular investors. Advisors shared the analogies and stories that bring ideas into focus with clients and prospects.

Financial planners and organic growth experts understand why some may hesitate to start posting videos. But the benefits far outweigh any risk of embarrassment.

Jack Mullen has built an ultrahigh net worth niche at Merrill Private Wealth Management that functions much like a family office. Here's how he did it, in our latest installment of Know Your Niche.

Any RIA or advisory practice seeking to grow must weigh the price of its marketing efforts toward prospective new clients against the return on that investment.

In Wells' latest big recruiting deal, two separate groups at Merrill are coming together to form Twin Harbors Private Wealth at Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, or FiNet.

The FOMC meeting will be interesting as Kevin Warsh takes the chair. KBRA Chief Strategist Van Hesser will review the meeting, the presser and the new dot plot.

Marketing experts say that advisory practices trying to grow organically must be thoughtful about the button that offers website visitors a meeting — or they could lose the prospect altogether.

Principality Private Wealth adds to the 115 teams &Partners has onboarded since its founding in 2023.

Bartoli Private Wealth Management Group comes to Wells Fargo following two other large advisory practices that recently joined from Morgan Stanley and UBS.

Despite the war in Iran and uncertainty over interest rates, the latest Financial Advisor Confidence Outlook shows that advisor sentiment has turned positive for the first time since January.