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Women represent a large, untapped market of potential investors. What kinds of conversations should advisors have with potential female investors?

A growing band of advisors is charging their clients purely for advice. Here's why you should be paying attention.

Wells Fargo enticed away an advisor duo managing a combined $1.5 billion from J.P. Morgan. While the grab was a major coup for the wirehouse, several large advisor teams left Wells Fargo and other wirehouse firms to try their turn at independence. Read more about these and other moves in our latest slideshow.

The IRS has issued final regulations that modify the standards governing written tax advice and update related provisions.

A former UBS Advisor with more than $130 million in assets and $1.2 million in annual production made a move to RBC Wealth Management-U.S.

The community banking model is supposed to be simple: take deposits, make loans. There is, however, a growing number of banks that are largely omitting the lending part of the model.

Mike Quimby will lead a team of more than 30 financial advisors and will help drive growth across the bank’s central region markets in six states.

Georges Chodron de Courcel’s resignation after more than 40 years at BNPParibas SA won’t soften U.S. demands for a guilty plea and a $10 billion penalty from the French bank for sanctions violations, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The SEC’s enforcement division has tightened oversight of advisors by focusing on some specific, often-times arcane practice areas.

Variable annuity net sales were in negative territory for the second straight quarter in early 2014.

Small firms need continuity strategies to protect themselves if an advisor dies or is incapacitated.

Attendees at the recent Women Advisors Forum, held in New York, shared tips and experiences when helping clients fund philanthropy, branding their practices and investing fine arts. And advisors heard from industry veterans like Sallie Krawcheck. See the smartest takeways from the conference in our slideshow.

UBS, Switzerland's biggest bank, leapfrogged Morgan Stanley and Bank of America to become the world's largest wealth manager by client assets, according to a ranking compiled by PAM Insight SA.

RBC Wealth Management-U.S. has recruited a former Morgan Stanley executive director to help with the firm's growth plans.

If you intend to grow, commit to a sales-centered grind with upfront costs -- but expect a payoff down the line.

A family office founded by Rothstein Kass executives gets backing from rapidly expanding Focus Financial Partners.

Majority Leader Eric Cantor's stunning defeat in Virginia's Republican primary Tuesday evening could usher in a new political era for the House — one that's likely to leave its imprint on the banking industry.

The Holding family has held large stakes in several banks for years; two of those banks are finally merging as part of a $637 million deal.

Many of the complex and costly regulations implemented under the Dodd-Frank Act are unnecessary and burdensome for community banks, writes the chief executive of the Community Bankers Association of Georgia. A two-tiered regulation system is the clear solution.

U.S. Capital Advisors, a small regional firm in Texas, has recruited five former UBS and J.P. Morgan advisors who managed more than $500 million in combined client assets.