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It is more important to rebalance in order to maintain a consistent asset allocation than it is to choose the right allocation in the first place.

The contentious issue of harmonizing fiduciary responsibilities remains high on the agency's to-do list, though a timeframe for when a proposal might materialize is far from certain.

Credit Suisse agreed to pay $2.6 billion in penalties and pleaded guilty to helping Americans cheat on their taxes, making it the first global bank in a decade to admit to a crime in a U.S. courtroom.

Here's a snapshot of the best ideas to come out of this year's conference.

What’s Really Behind the Proprietary Criteria for Indexes?

In seeking the helping hand of clients in finding new business, avoid being systematic or aggressive. Instead, make gentle, routine requests for help.

Two of the three brokers banned were registered with JP Morgan Securities. The other was with HSBC Securities.

FINRA pledges more vigorous enforcement while at the same time dropping an information submission requirement for brokers from the controversial proposed data-collection program known as CARDS.

Tax costs are too high, and clients need to take advantage of losses when they are available.

Benjamin F. Edwards snapped up four advisors from Wells Fargo and opened a new office in Pensacola, Fla.

Formerly affiliated with MassMutual Financial Group, Joe Esposito and Keith Kiker will bring more than $150 million in client assets to Commonwealth.

Women are rising in influence in the asset management space, but are still underrepresented.

UBS and Morgan Stanley shook up their executive ranks, while Morgan lost several advisors managing more than $700 million in assets to Wells Fargo, Raymond James and independent firm Steward Partners. Click through our slideshow to read about the latest moves, recruitments and promotions.

Tax costs are too high, and clients need to take advantage of losses when they are available.

Multibank holding companies that have long resisted consolidating their banks are finally giving in. The switch can offer a range of advantages beyond improved efficiency, but choosing the right moment for a consolidation — and making sure not to spook customers — can be tricky.

With Credit Suisse Group AG poised to become the first bank in more than a decade to admit to a crime in the U.S., regulators have been reaching out to some of the firm’s biggest business partners to avert a panic, according to a person briefed on those communications.

Planners gathered in Salt Lake City last week for NAPFA's annual spring conference, hearing the latest thinking on behavioral finance, student debt, practice management and more. Here are a few of the smartest things that Financial Planning's staff and contributors heard at the conference.

As clients live longer, they're looking to advisors for ways to boost retirement income. Here are three strategies to consider.

Good advisors must resist the temptation to chase performance.

Contrarian investors believe it's better to buy low, but just because a fund has been down doesn't mean that a rise is inevitable.