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PE funds have outperformed stocks over the past five, 10 and 25 years. But not in three of the past four. Here are some of the key caveats to the appeal of PE.

Only two out of nine firms included the total amount of money involved in revenue sharing — a practice critics say should be ended entirely — in their disclosures.

The May Financial Advisor Confidence Outlook survey shows that instability, especially around tariffs, continues to weigh heavily on the minds of advisors and their clients.

The industry conflict of interest takes many common, controversial or outright confusing forms. Here's what financial advisors and investors should know.

Also this week, Focus Financial ups the responsibilities for some top executives and Advisor Asset Management appoints a new CEO.

President Donald Trump's back-and-forth tariff plays have some advisors worried they are ill equipped to handle more swings, per new Financial Planning data.

Edward Jones meanwhile reshuffles its leadership ranks amid its push to become a full-service financial planning firm, and Rockefeller picks up big teams from Merrill.

A review of broker pay data reveals surprising trends in how top firms reward their brokers.

In our final installment on broker compensation in 2025, learn which firms are paying advisors with $2 million in annual revenue the most.

The headache of filing dozens of state or international returns due to the so-called jock tax comes with opportunities to tap into savings, experts say.

See which firms are paying advisors with $1 million in annual revenue the most.

A month into his new job, Triad Wealth Partners' chief technology officer Quin Kilgore is looking to build proprietary platforms and leverage AI tools to more than double the firm's AUM.

UBS and Janney Montgomery Scott both made changes to compensation for advisors producing at the $600,000 level.

UBS and RBC lowered their payout rates for advisors on the low end of the revenue production scale.

Market turmoil is likely to weigh on many advisors' take-home pay this year. Couple that with changes some firms have made to their compensation grids, and some advisors are in for a double whammy.

Agreements from LPL Financial and Betterment top a host of merger and acquisition activity that has jumped since the start of this year.

In a big week for industry recruiting, Stifel lands practices managing $2.9 billion at Merrill, Merrill recruits a $1.9 billion team from Raymond James and Rockefeller pulls part of a $2.3 billion team from UBS.