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The annual FP50 finds growth moderating, as well as firms strategizing to retain and build market share

The picks that worked as markets raced higher may not be the best choices going forward. As you look ahead, consider these ideas.

Is the boom over? After years of double-digit growth, independent broker-dealers hit a rough patch in 2012. We report from the front lines of the FP50.

Friction between the generations has been around forever. But does it actually matter in the workplace?

Not all advisors have the talent to be rainmakers, but most can learn to identify and encourage sales skills in others.

Your employees, colleagues and clients have all been shaped by defining experiences. Take the time to learn them.

Make sure you have a plan to reassure clients and keep them on track the next time the markets tumble.

Vanguard today launched the Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund, which is available in Investor, Admiral, and Institutional shares.

Topics at this Women Advisors Forum event included behavioral finance, tools for working with widows and divorcees, the need for succession planning, strategies for philanthropic giving, ways to get more women into the planning industry and more.

New Orleans-based St. Denis J. Villere & Company is adding another mutual fund to its roster.

Azzad Asset Management is widening the distribution of one of its funds.

The best bank managers and best wirehouse managers have a lot in common. While each has the distinct flavor of their respective channels, they are very similar in spirit.

Royal Bank of Canada was ordered to pay more than $800,000 to a U.S. couple over their losses on investments including Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. preferred stock.

As selling stocks gets tougher, the number of brokers has dropped 12 percent since 2008 to about 363,000 last year. Edward Jones is finding success by sticking to its old ways.

Physicians, lawyers and accountants all have a comprehensive, detailed set of rules or best practices that govern their actions in providing services to their clients. Unfortunately, Steve Atkinson writes, not all financial advisors have a consistent, universal code.

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office found that the top 10 tax expenditures are distributed unevenly across the income scale, with much of the benefit going to the top-earning 1 percent of the population.

Mutual fund assets inched up by $179.6 billion, or 1.3%, to $13.856 trillion in April, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Karla D'Alleva Valas, a managing director of the Complex Asset Group for Fidelity Charitable, says she cringes during her church's services when congregants drop envelopes of what she assumes is cash into the donations basket. Why? Cash is expensive, she told advisors at the Women Advisors Forum in Dallas on Thursday.

Alternative mutual funds are making their way into the market via mutual fund firms, hedge funds, private equity shops and now banks.

Money market mutual fund assets increased by $12.20 billion to $2.613 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, May 29, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.