Portfolio

The No. 29 IBD has unveiled two significant recruiting moves in the past two months.

Despite Merrill Lynch’s recent decision to stay in the Broker Protocol, Greg Fleming sees a long struggle ahead.

Morgan Stanley and UBS's exit from the accord spurred a number of advisors to move up their planned career changes.

While there’s no fail-safe method for modeling the costs, a popular calculation may significantly under- or overstate the burden of tuition, room and board, Kitces.com research associate Derek Tharp writes.

To add insult to injury, these returns didn’t even come cheap. The average expense ratio was more than 1%.

The bank's retail brokerage business sold customers shares in mutual funds with front- or back-end sales charges when they were eligible for Class A shares that waived the upfront sales load, FINRA claimed.

The top advisor this year, Brock Kidd from Pinnacle Bank, focuses on well-heeled clients and many of Nashville’s high-profile musicians.

Despite critiques, Schwab Intelligent Portfolios will keep its cash allocations for clients.

Rising technology costs and increased fee pressure are working against the industry, research shows.

Medicare Part B premiums will stay flat next year, but most retirees will still pay more.