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As advisors increasingly move toward a fee-based business model, BIC looks at the most successful advisors in the channel. Here are the top 25 bank advisors based on their fee-based business.

Wells Fargo, the largest U.S. home lender, reported a 24% rise in fourth-quarter earnings as the bank extended more credit. The shares slipped as margins narrowed and mortgage applications waned.

The contraction in the U.S. market for borrowing and lending securities amid rising interest rates and heightened global bank regulation will increase this year, according to Fitch Ratings.

JPMorgan Chase's quarterly profit fell 7.3% on $2.6 billion of settlements tied to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme as rising legal costs ended the firm’s three-year streak of record annual earnings.

Banks could save money -- and avoid having to sell to, or buy other, banks -- by sharing the costs of compliance checks, account databases and even branch space, a new report from the accounting firm EY suggests.

UBS AG, Switzerland's largest bank, expects to boost client assets in the U.K. this year even as Swiss competitors try to break into London's $1.2 trillion private wealth market to help counter withdrawals at home.

Many considered Dec. 31, 2013, the final date for year-end tax planning, but there are numerous planning actions that you can take in 2014 retroactive to 2013. Here's a quick and easy guide to help with planning.

If your clients run into one of these guys, they just may leave you to make the change to fee-based.

An advisory group in Winter Park, Fla. with $550 million in client assets leaves Morgan Stanley to go independent.

Financial services firms' 2014 plans center on product lines, distribution capabilities and technology, according to a survey done by Cerulli Associates.

The move is part of a shift of emphasis from life insurance "to a more well-rounded protection and retirement planning approach."

Granite Financial says it hopes moving to the IBD will power growth.

A report by the U.S. Treasury's Office of Financial Research on asset managers and systemic risk is inaccurate and should not be relied on for policy decisions or regulatory action of any kind, says the Investment Company Institute's General Counsel Karrie McMillan and Chief Economist Brian Reid.

Certain securities salespeople are giving the brokerage industry a bad name by putting clients into manifestly unsuitable securities, namely leveraged and inversed ETFs, which are attracting wary and watchful eyes among U.S. regulators.

Gold climbed to the highest level in a month on speculation that the Federal Reserve will slow the pace of cuts to stimulus after U.S. payrolls increased less than analysts forecast. Silver, platinum and palladium rose.

UBS AG Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermotti denied speculation that Switzerland's biggest bank will spin off its investment-banking business to meet regulators' demands for holding more capital.

Municipal bonds remain attractive even after their divergence from Treasuries this past week, industry watchers say, suggesting the recent signs of strength in the market may carry into the new year.

Rising Treasury yields and the biggest equity market rally in 16 years are leading one measure of stock valuations to the most bearish level since 2011.

Self-employed individuals and small-business owners may not meet the requirements of new mortgage rules that went into effect Friday and could face hurdles obtaining new home loans.

A new PriceMetrix study outlines critical factors for keeping clients connected.