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A GAO report suggests that blanket rules on spousal consent for 401(k) withdrawals could solve "financial infidelity problems — and exacerbate them.

Wells' latest advisor recruiting coup comes just days after it pulled over a 19-person team formerly managing nearly $6 billion at Morgan Stanley.

Jazz Wealth, whose name honors eccentric musicians who've mastered a difficult art form, specializes in reaching out to "misfit" clients with YouTube videos and events like wine socials.

The Taylor Group of Wells Fargo Advisors is led by nine advisors, all of them relatively young and many of them siblings.

For our Know Your Niche series, Steve Mason, with Bank of America's Private Bank, has developed a client base out of horse lovers like himself.

The Bahnsen Group, founded in 2015 by a former Morgan Stanley team, has grown into a private wealth powerhouse with roughly 100 employees and offices in three states.

Jess Polito of Turkey Hill Management says she believes her firm is the only M&A advisory firm that exclusively uses retainer fees, rather than commissions.

Compensation differences between wirehouses and regional firms become pronounced at the $2 million production level, with regionals rising to the top of the pay scale and wirehouses grouping together at the bottom.

When it comes to compensation, firms really start to distinguish themselves at the $1 million production level. Janney has become one of the lower payers in recent years, while RBC and UBS have signaled a greater willingness to work with these advisors.

For advisors with $600,000 in annual production, regional firms like Janney and RBC have been reducing their compensation in recent years. They're now more in line with the pay policies more commonly found at large Wall Street firms.

Most "regional firms" still have fairly generous compensation for advisors at the low end of revenue production. But at Janney and RBC, the pay rates are lower and much closer to those of large Wall Street firms.

Traditionally, regional firms were places where advisors with mid-level revenue production could find comfortable homes. Janney and RBC show how that's changing.

As "blue zone" lifestyles and AI medical tech push human life expectancy over the century mark, retirement planners must ensure that "wealth spans" keep pace.

Touchstone Wealth Partners is the fourth team with more than $1 billion in client assets to join Wells Fargo's FiNet unit this year.

For advisors like Chris Diodato of WELLth Financial Planning, everything from insurance to industry software is costing more these days.

It can be hard for advisors to fully understand what clients and prospects truly want. The right questions can uncover not just financial blind spots, but the fears, priorities and assumptions behind their decisions.

Natasha Howe's friends were blowing up the internet as influencers, but they needed a financial advisor who could help get their financial lives in order. She now has a growing niche.

Exchange funds could help address some wealthy clients' concentration risks and tax quandaries at the same time.

The addition of Peter Laidlaw to Merrill's offices in San Francisco comes as firm executives aim to engage in "more aggressive recruiting."

Advisors with asset minimums find themselves rejecting clients arbitrarily and can often feel disconnected from their clients' planning goals.