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Advisor advocates say they are beginning to look to civil courts and other FINRA alternatives to get erroneous customer complaints removed from their clients' online records.

Higher expenses from the record headcount of financial advisors and a continuous stream of recruits and acquisitions are investing in the firm's future earnings, though.

Analysts find that funds selling call options tend to do poorly in bull markets and lag behind broader market indexes.

The IRS is taking applications for funds for its Tax Counseling for the Elderly and VITA programs.

You'd think making $1 million a year for your firm would be considered a lot. But advisors at that level last year have to bring in a bit more to maintain their take-home pay.

A homeowner in New York asks how to make sure her apartment goes to her kids after she dies — and not to Medicaid.

Michael Nathanson will replace interim chief Dan Glaser but remain the chief of The Colony Group as the RIA aggregator consolidates its ranks out of the public eye.

The text reveals why agency officials believe it's necessary, how it will work in practice, how much it will cost and how it responded to criticism.

State supreme court rulings granting frozen embryos the same legal status as children will have major impacts on financial planning, writes an expert on estate planning and tax law.

Taxpayers and clients have scads of wrong ideas about taxes — and they have even more wacky notions about tax refunds.

Signature Estate & Investment Advisors will accelerate its plan to reach $50 billion in client assets by 2027 by acquiring a Cleveland-based enterprise with 21 advisors.

New financial planning questions on the accounting exam could attract more young people and encourage current practitioners to explore the burgeoning ties between the fields.

Our continued look at compensation for advisors at different revenue levels considers pay for $600,000-a-year producers.

Research shows wealth managers have much greater confidence in the new technology than their clients. Here's how to shrink the gap.

A lover of Tesla and AI technology, Orion's Brian McLaughlin warns that for most, it's still too early to trust AI to make financial predictions.

Wireshouses continue to put the squeeze on advisors at the lower end of the revenue-generation scale.

Many advisors will have to produce more this year to make the same take-home pay as last year, Financial Planning's annual analysis finds, with low producers under pressure to move up the revenue ladder or move on.

The insurance products began 2024 in much the same way as 2022 and 2023: with record-breaking sales.

Are clients' savings working for them? How to best guide them on the pros and cons of Roth IRAs and other savings programs.

Financial advisors, tax professionals and their clients get another year to think through potential tax, distribution and trust strategies, according to experts.