Clearinghouses/custodians

Which firms showed “meaningful progress” in improving client experience? And which one slipped?

The firm’s chief received a nearly 60% raise in 2016, dwarfing the compensation of several rivals.

The 17-year industry veteran says organic growth is the biggest issue facing advisory firms.

The move comes as a surprise; "active search" for a replacement underway.

The expansion of hybrid platforms and bank digital advice promises big changes and fierce competition in automated wealth management.

Some advisers expressed concern about the custodian now competing for the same clients they were courting with the institutional version of Schwab's robo.

Arbitrators also rejected the former adviser's counterclaims for $51 million in damages.

In the future, the wealth management client may look different than what you'd expect.

Edward "Ned" Johnson, 86, is retiring and will become chairman emeritus.

Digital platforms have to overcome two key challenges to ensure they survive, according to the CEO of Orion Advisor Services.

The firm's digital advice service, to be piloted in early 2017, is a bid to give RIAs unprecedented scale.

On-demand, highly specialized and competitively priced: If it works for car sharing, why not for financial services?

There’s one goof every adviser should take extra precautions to avoid: being careless about those IRA beneficiary forms.

The firm, which acted as a custodian for a defunct RIA, allegedly failed to make material disclosures to clients regarding their accounts.

If an advisor hasn't adopted new technology, the CEO asks, are they putting their own interests ahead of their clients?

Firms must invest in digital capabilities, says A.T. Kearney's Uday Singh, but they need to balance that evolution to allow for the human touch to remain in a central role.

Choosing a broker-dealer and/or a custodian is one of the most important decisions for advisors going independent. Here are five questions for each choice.

Fidelity Investments is telling investors and advisors that clients' data appears not to have been captured by the hackers who infiltrated the systems of JPMorgan Chase earlier this year. And while clients aren't yet worried, advisors say, such threats are unlikely to go away.

As an increasing number of fee-based advisors leave wirehouses to go independent, some custodians are experiencing some of the strongest growth in the financial industry. Here are the top 15 custodians as ranked by RIA assets.