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Advisors often need help developing the skills required to build a growing firm.

Here are three steps you can take to leverage the power of LinkedIn to produce leads and grow your practice.

Ameriprise Financial posted the biggest gain in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index after reporting profit that beat analysts' estimates and announcing increased share buybacks.

Barclays said Hugh "Skip" McGee will step down as chief executive officer of its Americas unit, almost six years after the British bank bought the operation from the bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings.

Bank of America's discovery that it submitted incorrect information to the Federal Reserve Board during its recent stress test could undermine what has already become an overly complex exercise.

Hedge funds and private-equity firms have created bogus service providers to boost fees they charge to portfolio companies and investors, SEC Chair Mary Jo White will tell lawmakers in Washington today.

For both consumers and corporations, the lower the income, the higher the rate of tax penalties, according to new research.

BofA CEO Brian T. Moynihan won permission last month for the firm's first dividend increase since the financial crisis. Now he's under pressure to salvage the payout after the company mistakenly inflated capital levels by about $4 billion.

The biggest money managers are asking U.S. Congress to fix a largely frozen part of the mortgage-bond market with a step that would echo moves taken during the Great Depression.

From gender inequality in the financial planning profession to the expansion of financial education and wellness programs, here are the most notable quotes from the past week's stories.

Third-party broker-dealers increased the number of advisors they deploy by 1.5% and upped the number of financial institutions they serve by 2.6%.

Advisors who are good communicators have clients who are more compliant and give more referrals. Understand how to manage three important types of conversations.

As a CPA turned planner, Jean-Luc Bourdon focuses on tax-efficient income and other elder issues.

Using these two simple techniques, one firm acquired over 100 new clients through social media last year.

With nearly $400 million in assets, the trio will bring their new firm's assets to roughly $1.3 billion.

Hashtags make it easier for advisors to stay on top of industry developments and contribute to larger conversations taking place.

The newly named exec is responsible for relationship management and business development for personal trust, investment management, and private banking in the New York area, Northern New Jersey and Boston.

FINRA's arbitration process is flawed beyond repair, and investors would be better served under a different system, argues author and columnist William D. Cohan.

As interest rates edge up, advisors should understand which asset classes fare best during times of higher inflation.

Bank of America, which last month won approval to lift its dividend for the first time since the financial crisis, said it will suspend that increase and $4 billion of planned buybacks because of an error in its capital planning.