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Only about 20% of the mass affluent market have a financial advisor, notes FutureAdvisor CEO Bo Lu, compared with around 60% of individuals with more than $1 million in investable assets.

The Social Security mistake even its reps are making; calculating required distributions from your retirement accounts; should you drink the annuity COLA?

Before advisors recommend the increasingly popular hedged investment strategy, they better know the basics.

Competitive threat or recruiting target? The wave of retiring baby boomers will change the calculus for client needs -- and that's opening up a new opportunity for CPAs in wealth management.

The profitability of alts for investment managers and product originators promises that the deluge of alternative investment opportunities will continue.

Some research shows that alternatives have as much chance of hurting performance as helping. With so many new products available, how can advisors ensure that they're picking the right ones?

Planners who started their professional lives in other fields identify the crossover skills that make them successful.

Wedbush advisor Mark Heiden talks about what drives him: “I want to keep growing and develop the business so my family can carry on the legacy started by my father in the 1950s.”

With the number of independent workers on the rise, advisors need to know about the distinct issues that they face.

Wealthy clients need help raising kids who’ll value community well-being and financial stewardship. Here’s how advisors can help.

Here's how Roger Hewins used an accounting firm connection to help create a $3.5 billion RIA.

The third edition of Redtail's highly popular CRM application seems destined to help the company hold its leading position.

The strategy once known as SRI has rebranded and expanded. Here’s what you should know now about the universe of values-based strategies.

Mass-affluent investors are a confused group, so advisors need to set clear expectations about the markets, as well as the help they can provide.

Regulators in other countries are able to act more easily because there are "just fewer decision makers.”

D.A. Davidson Companies announced that Jim Kerr would replace Bill Johnstone as CEO effective January 2015.

A FINRA arbitration panel ruled a broker caught in an insider trading scandal must pay back over $3 million to Morgan Stanley.

The search among internal candidates continues for a new head of the dispute resolutions unit.

A wirehouse advisor team managing about $400 million in assets has left UBS to join Snowden Lane Partners, an independent firm.

Recent mutual fund flows suggest more advisors are going across the pond when constructing their client portfolios.