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Your wealthy client wants to sell his or her business. What can you do to help plan properly for this major liquidity event?

New skills and new training are necessary for advisors to succeed in today's market, but banks and broker-dealers have not made it a top priority.

Money is flooding into exchange- traded funds focused on health care at the fastest rate in at least six years, driven by booming biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors bringing new products to market.

Overseas trading of Russian stocks is soaring as investors react to the twists and turns of the military standoff in Ukraine long after the Moscow bourse has closed for the day.

Despite some bright spots, the bank channel has some surprising areas in need of improvement, according survey findings unveiled at the annual review-and-preview at this week's BISA conference.

Raymond James enticed away an advisor with $2.2 million in production as well as several associates from Merrill Lynch for its Cincinnati office.

While many HNW individuals can count on a fairly steady income from an ongoing business or a successful professional practice, entertainers and athletes can have highly variable incomes. Here’s how advisors can help.

One of President Obama's proposed 2015 budget changes calls for a provision that would require Roth IRAs to follow the same RMD rules as other retirement accounts -- a 'major game-changer' for retirement planning, says one IRA expert.

While many HNW individuals can count on a fairly steady income from an ongoing business or a successful professional practice, entertainers and athletes can have highly variable incomes. Here’s how advisors can help.

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Wealth management firms are offering big compensation packages this year to push their advisors to sell more and sell up. Here are the best comp plans if you are a $600K producer.

From why the CFP Board may be facing new legal challenges over past disciplinary decisions to RCS Capital Nicholas Schorsch's views on the sweet spot for financial advice, here are some of the most notable quotes from the past week's stories.

Index funds became popular over the last four decades because they’re simple, conservative and low cost. A different kind of exchange-traded fund is drawing record cash by promoting better returns with the same stocks.

Pimco Unconstrained Bond Fund, one of the firm’s most important offerings as clients turn away from traditional fixed-income products, overhauled its investments in the fourth quarter, when Bill Gross replaced Chris Dialynas as manager of the $25.6 billion fund.

Pimco Unconstrained Bond Fund, one of the firm’s most important offerings as clients turn away from traditional fixed-income products, overhauled its investments in the fourth quarter, when Bill Gross replaced Chris Dialynas as manager of the $25.6 billion fund.

Credit Suisse Group, which runs Asia's third-largest private bank, will step up lending to first-generation business owners as it seeks to build relationships with potential wealth-management clients.

Upstate New York banker John Buhrmaster discusses the regulatory challenges small banks face, his issues with big banks and why smaller banks need to take a serious look at charging more for the services they offer.

'The average deal was a $1 billion or more RIA buying a mid- or smaller-size firm, a classic tuck-in,' says Jonathan Beatty of Schwab Advisor Services.

Now that financial regulators have finalized rules on social media interaction, firms like ING are, slowly and cautiously, beginning to let advisors experiment with social networks.