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Advisors are facing 'the most aggressive regulatory environment I have ever seen,' a securities lawyer tells RIAs at a Fidelity conference this week.

A Morningstar Inc. analyst reiterated his top rating for Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Total Return Fund, the world's largest bond fund.

Wells Fargo is adding Bob Vorlop and Joe Nadreau to its executive, according to Mary Mack, president of Wells Fargo Advisors.

Consumer finance site WalletHub has released a report on the states with the highest and lowest taxes.

Low-deductible plans have thrived under Obamacare -- offering new tax strategies for both clients and advisors.

A Morgan Stanley broker and the managing clerk at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP were arrested today for an insider-trading scheme that authorities said netted $5.6 million in illicit profit.

If transparency is so important to us as independent advisors, why are we using so much jargon?

As more people live into their 100s -- and as families in which four or five generations overlap become commonplace -- some core elements of financial planning need to change, says one longevity specialist.

The ranks of America's richest investors are growing and so is their optimism, with confidence among global high-net-worth investors reaching pre-crisis highs.

In 2013, the programs produced $568.3 million in income, up 8.9% from the previous year and the most they’ve ever produced in the roughly seven years that the data has been available.

DataPak will enable financial institutions to infuse customer data from their wealth management or brokerage operations into their core systems.

U.S. Senators Carl Levin and John McCain urged the Justice Department to seek extradition of about 30 Swiss bankers and others who are charged with enabling offshore tax evasion and haven't appeared in federal courts.

A sharply increasing number of plan sponsors want financial advisor guidance -- but many of the RIAs on Fidelity's platform are just dabbling in the area, the custodian says.

The ranks of America's richest investors are growing and so is their optimism, with confidence among global high-net-worth investors reaching pre-crisis highs.

Wells Fargo, which reported more profit than any other U.S. bank in 2013, left CEO John Stumpf’s annual compensation unchanged at $19.3 million.

Community banks are revamping branches and offering new services in an effort to become trusted advisors to small businesses. Such a transformation is often easier said than done.

Treasury yields were in the tightest range in nearly seven years as traders weighed prospects for Federal Reserve bond tapering against concern tension between the U.S. and Russia over Crimea will increase.

U.S. mutual fund companies are pushing back against claims that some firms may be too big to fail, saying that subjecting a few large money managers to more regulation would hurt competition and ultimately fund investors.

James E. Stowers Jr., who built a billion-dollar fortune as founder of the American Century Investments mutual fund company, then gave most of it away for medical research, has died.

Janney Montgomery Scott recruited a veteran Merrill Lynch advisor with $1 million in production.