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Financial advice sometimes is — and isn’t — deductible.

All systems go for more transactions — but the stock market is a wild card.

Instead of amassing $1 million in savings, clients should consider asking themselves if they are prepared financially for several decades of retirement.

An unregistered advisor with little investing experience raised $1.4 million from family and friends and then squandered the money on bad investments, federal prosecutors say.

The sale will allow Cadaret to provide advisors with future growth opportunities, the 75-year-old co-founder of the IBD said.

Jamie Price doesn’t expect the firm's advisors to have any problem with a new standard after taking steps to comply with the more restrictive DOL rule.

"I still feel like NAPFA is one of the best kept secrets in the planning world and we want to change that," NAPFA CEO Geoffrey Brown says.

“The broker-dealer world has tried to hang their hat on suitability, and if you close your eyes a little and squint, they almost look like fiduciaries — but not really,” one advisor says.

Less than a third of those polled analyze transaction costs before a trade.

The latest moves bolster the firm’s presence in the Northeast.

The news of the data breach cast a shadow over relatively strong first-quarter earnings for the Atlanta bank.

Failing the test can be devastating, but you shouldn’t quit. Avoiding these mistakes may help you earn a coveted passing grade.

Many retirees kept their financial assets for at least 20 years after retiring, according to a study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

Fielding rapid-fire questions, Savant Capital Management CEO Brent Brodeski reveals the biggest mistakes of RIA buyers and sellers, shares the strategy behind his firm's targeted acquisitions and divulges his favorite app.

The defrauded clients included the advisor’s own in-laws, who had suffered from Alzheimer’s and a debilitating stroke.

A majority of affluent Americans are likely to adjust their financial plans under the new law, according to the AICPA. Here's how advisors can help.

Developing a team is crucial for RIA owners thinking about winding things down.

The bank’s latest retreat from wealth management will move 51 advisors to the independent space under Woodbury Financial.

If it's not uniform, and it's not a fiduciary standard, then it is at best a modest step forward, investor advocates say.

It appears the regulator bought into the investor choice argument of sales reps right from the beginning.