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With $1.4 billion in assets already, firm aims to become a Southern California giant.

Bank of America advanced in New York trading as the second-largest U.S. lender said lower legal expenses and loan losses helped profit rebound.

Independence Bancshares in S.C. may look like an unassuming community bank, but its plans to tie together mobile banking and real-time processing may turn the industry on its head.

Three big industry names are joining forces to form a new wealth management firm, Lebenthal Wealth Advisors.

Advisors seeking to connect with the younger generations of wealthy households may want to consider doing things a little differently than they have for their boomer parents.

To Outsource or Not to Outsource

To Outsource or Not to Outsource

Fama’s Nobel Work Shows Active Managers Fated to Lose to Indexes

Morgan Stanley Funds Join Rivals in Shunning Some Treasuries

Invesco’s Woodford Leaving After 25 Years to Set Up Fund

Just beneath the handful of behemoth banks, there are many more smaller banks competing for a larger, mainstream clientele. It's a mad scramble, but you can read about some of the winning strategies here.

There are many ways to tilt portfolios toward small cap and value. Here are three alternatives for portfolio construction.

Tax treatment, good or bad, can make or break an investment decision. Are you helping your clients avoid these common blunders?

How can you tell whether your own goals are appropriately aggressive? Two things helped new solo advisor Dave Grant understand this.

Banks are looking to the relative safety and profitability of their wealth management divisions to boost earnings. But with that strategy comes increased regulatory and ethical scrutiny of this business line.

The fiscal showdown in Washington entered its final stages as the House and Senate prepared competing plans that would end the 15-day-old government shutdown and prevent the U.S. from missing promised payments.

SEC Chairman Mary Jo White said the agency will review corporate disclosure rules to root out requirements that may be causing “information overload” for investors.

Hector Sants, head of compliance and government, is to take a temporary leave of absence because of “exhaustion and stress” less than a year into the job.

The work that earned Eugene Fama the Nobel Prize in economics provided the intellectual foundation for index-tracking funds, which have upended stock picking as investors abandon active money managers.

Advisors at NAPFA describe how they’re working remotely with a majority of their clients. “More and more clients will expect this kind of service,” they say.