Subject Root Tag

Fed up with the traditional brokerage training programs, financial advisors are opening more doors right into independent practices.

The market will separate out those who best take care of their customers.

Coinbase Global is bowing to pressure from U.S. regulators and tabling plans to launch a product that would pay users interest for lending out their tokens.

The question revolves around each individual practice’s specific structure and outlook more than any other factor.

In the past year, dynastic wealth has grown for certain families.

The XY Planning Network of fee-only advisors and investment advisor Michael Kitces say consumers are being deceived when brokers use labels like “wealth manager” and “financial advisor.”

History suggests that assets associated with economic and social change are ripe for eventual price corrections, the report says.

Allison Herren Lee and Robert Cook also vowed to continue reforming expungements after the tabling of a new proposed rule earlier this year.

The Canadian asset manager’s stateside AUM will pass $80 billion after its latest deal for a Silicon Valley-based firm.

A comprehensive bill by U.S. Rep. John Larson would change how the COLA is calculated, increase income threshold amounts, the rate for inclusion of Social Security benefits and more.

Here's what you missed this week in wealth management.

New products constructed on more stringent ESG criteria than the so-called greenwashers often can’t be accessed through large wealth managers.

The firm also agreed to an independent compliance review and an overhaul of its social media policies.

The firm cited investor appetite for virtual currencies, the growth of Bitcoin holders and the existence of similar funds abroad as reasons to approve the product.

Plan participants gave firms low marks in fundamental areas, though some performed better than others.

Two of the most generous tax loopholes are on the chopping block, the latest surprise in emerging tax increases.

An unusual recommendation by the wirehouse’s First Clearing unit drove the big succession deal for XML Financial Group.

The Social Security Administration found the asset reserves of both the OASI and DI Trust Funds in 2020 increased, but deficits still loom.

The slow pace of IT innovation leaves little room for advisors to Apple-ize client-facing functions — and they’re losing business because of it.