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Want to be a divorce financial planner? Here are the top tips to help you be successful.

In the bank channel, fee-based business is the Woodstock of strategies--everyone says they're doing it, but few really are.

If you asked your clients to describe you and your practice in two sentences, would you like what they have to say? Would they even be able to describe you or your practice in two sentences?

These fast-growing firms are pushing boundaries and setting a new pace. See who topped the charts on Financial Planning's third annual list of RIA leaders.

The SEC is putting advisors on notice that its examiners will cast a wide net in their reviews of investment advisors over the coming year.

Joseph Dear, chief investment officer of California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. public pension plan, is taking leave to continue personal health treatments.

Commentary: Of the five economic proposals Jesse Myerson lists in Rolling Stone, one stands out, though not in a positive sense: that the U.S. start a sovereign wealth fund. It's a proposal that would prove problematic for capital markets, pose thorny conflicts of interest, and offer vast opportunities for cronyism and graft.

The CFP Board announced this week that it's shortening its CFP certification exam and transitioning to a computer-based testing platform.

Month after month, JPMorgan Chase endures negative headlines — this week came the announcement that the bank is paying $2.6 billion to settle allegations related to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme — yet investment analysts remain bullish on its stock.

The new hires are part of the wealth manager's campaign to increase its sales force by 50% and add private and mortgage bankers in key wealth markets by the end of 2014.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the probe that led to his settlement with BlackRock Inc. over analyst surveys is looking at brokerage firms and individuals who provided nonpublic information that could have been used to trade.

Big banks don't have many loud cheerleaders these days, but they might not need many more than Dick Bove.

Citigroup Inc., the third-largest U.S. lender, said Deepak Sharma will retire as chairman of its private bank after 38 years with the firm.

Payrolls in December increased at the slowest pace since January 2011, indicating a pause in the recent strength of the U.S. labor market that may have reflected the effects of bad weather.

As consumers manage more of their lives on their mobile devices and PCs, banks, slowly but surely, are updating their websites to make banking fit in with a digital lifestyle. In one new trend, they're letting customers schedule in-branch appointments online and through a mobile device, a la Apple, Staples and Best Buy.

U.S. stocks fluctuated as investors scrutinized data showing a slowdown in jobs growth for clues on the pace of Federal Reserve stimulus cuts.

Raymond James' Global Private Client Group CEO Chet Helck is retiring after a 25-year career with the firm.

Municipal bond mutual funds recorded their lightest outflows since May 22—when they last registered inflows. But money still flowed from funds for a 33rd straight week, Lipper FMI numbers showed.

Contrary to popular belief, there are some tech stocks that offer dividends for a client portfolio. Here are a few ways to find them.

FINRA alleges that the firms' advisors sold two types of highly risky ETFs that even they didn't understand.