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Growing firms may need to rethink processes, tools, relationships and staffing strategies.

Many RIA firms are tempted to use new trust companies to avoid losing clients to big banks. Some experts warn against it.

Advisors now have extraordinary tax-advantaged estate plan possibilities for wealthy clients.

A top performer in the large growth category, Thornburg International Growth Fund is hard to pigeonhole.

What do your rivals think are the best picks for CRM, planning software, rebalancing, social media and more?

JPMorgan Chase’s reported attempt to get the FDIC to pay part of its settlement with the government is yet another chapter in a long-running dispute over the 2008 resolution of Washington Mutual.

"There aren't enough people going into the industry to replace those who retire," Scott Curtis, president of Raymond James Financial Services, told some 200 program managers and bank advisors at the event in Orlando.

"We're not maniacally focused on how many advisors we have affiliated with the firm," said Scott Curtis, president of Raymond James Financial Services. "Our focus is on asset growth and helping you to be more productive."

Banks and credit unions are paying advisors more for fee-based business, according to a new report from Kehrer Saltzman & Associates.

The mass-affluent are getting more serious about long-term financial objectives, although there is still a major gap between their retirement savings and retirement goals.

The CFA Institute, along with Maria Hartwig, an associate professor of psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, are working on techniques to help financial professionals improve their ability to detect deception.

According to a report from consulting firm Booz & Co., more than half (51%) of the "rising mass-affluent" say they would consider using their primary bank for investing, compared with only 37% over the age of 50 who said they would.

This list is purely quantitative so those people skills that are so important in any business relationship are simply not captured here.

Professional football players spend 95% of their time preparing — advisors should take a page from that playbook and beef up their referral processes.

After 30 years of declining rates, this past spring was a modest reminder that the tide also rises. The next time will be a disaster unless your clients act now.

Often advisors cross the finish line of their careers only to sell their books of business at half their value. Don't let that happen to you.

Here are this year's best financial advisors in the bank channel and the secrets to their success.

(Bloomberg) -- Illinois legislative leaders reached a tentative agreement on fixing the worst-funded U.S. public pension system and will submit it to lawmakers for a vote Dec. 3, according to a spokesman for Senate President John Cullerton. “The Senate president will be debriefing members of his caucus in the coming days in hopes of garnering support,” Ronald Holmes said in an e-mail. …

Breaking out of the traditional allocation model to include a much broader range of investment categories and using relative strength principals to reallocate frequently may be one way to achieve stronger results for clients.

Some academics maintain that if a client obtains an immediate annuity, it pays an income stream for life and the individual is less likely to outlive his or her money. But of course, many planners often see issues with this in real-life situations.