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Experts in the finance and wealth management industries say AI saves time and helps synthesize large amounts of data, but technical and ethical limitations remain.

Focus Financial Partners also merges two of its RIAs and Captrust buys up two practices together managing nearly $2 billion.

The president-elect announced a Treasury leadership team, including Kies, Samantha Schwab, Cora Alvi, Alexandra Preate and Hunter McMaster.

In December, the BlackRock Investment Institute stated that giving bitcoin a 1% to 2% weighting would produce a similar share of profile risk as the so-called Magnificent Seven technology stocks in a standard 60/40 portfolio.

A lawyer in New York needs help paying off her loans from law school. Are educational assistance programs the answer?

The "model rule" for state regulators is meant to help clients distinguish between advisors who earn management fees and brokers who collect transaction-based commissions.

Like any ranking, the list from SmartAsset comes with some caveats. But these firms are catering to a lot of high net worth and ultrahigh net worth clients.

Getting healthy. Networking. Drawing the line on prices. Here are the ways wealth managers want to improve their practices — and their lives — in the new year.

A FINRA arbitration panel sided with a claimant who contended Wells and one of its advisors should have recognized telltale signs of elder fraud when their client decided to give away tens of thousands of shares of Aflac stock.

Kenneth Silva Ballard, an investment advisor for First Affirmative Financial Network, seeks to carefully order the "ingredients" of his tech stack so they work well together.

The tax-efficient, low-cost funds may have an even greater advantage over traditional mutual funds due to the IRS's lack of a definition for "substantially identical" securities.

From LPL Financial's legal challenges to a continuing education scam that involved more than 60 brokers, these are the stories our readers flocked to in 2024.

The SEC should amend the regulation in order to help workers who can't afford to wait for an IPO to access the value of their equity.

Edward Turley, a once high-flying advisor booted from the industry in 2022, is at the center of a dozen client settlements costing JPMorgan upward of $63 million.

High-yield cash opportunities, alternative investments, ETFs and short term bonds received renewed interest.

The No. 1 state effectively charges 1.88% on the value of a residence, according to a realty firm's analysis of a frequent and growing concern among clients.

From classic standbys of business and finance to motivational self-help to modern fiction and more, check out 15 books that helped financial advisors in their practices this year.

The iShares Bitcoin Trust (ticker IBIT) smashed industry records in its launch year of 2024.

Richard "Dick" Parsons, the former Citigroup chairman who died Thursday, is credited with helping the New York megabank survive the financial crisis. Earlier in his career, he led Dime Savings Bank out of the savings-and-loan crisis.

Experts say the playing field has fundamentally changed as fractional ownership and other paths to access make alternative investments increasingly available.