College recruiting

Financial planning careers pay well and offer great prospects, but many students still don't know they exist.

When it comes to elementary professional behavior, young interns can lack basic skills. Here's what's likely to surface.

The firm is following through on its $30-billion pledge and trying to forge a different onramp into the profession.

With an eye on pathways to fee-only practices and away from an “eat what you kill” philosophy, four planners aim to usher in a more diverse profession.

The hurdles faced by Black professionals who break into the financial services belie the notion that their small numbers at the industry’s top ranks are a pipeline problem.

One of the largest professional designation and training schools launched a program to award free tuition to at least 25 students in the next year.

Distinguishing features of undergraduate and graduate programs for advisors offered by leading colleges and universities.

I had a strong opinion. Then our reporting changed my mind.

At best, the variety increases awareness of what the career can offer. At worst, it lends ammunition to critics who insist the profession isn’t a profession at all.

An incentive program allows employees to receive as much as $7,200 over three years.

Financial advisors can, and should, develop the profession by building relationships with high schools and universities.

In an unusually frank discussion, women executives from five major firms urged the industry to get involved in educating young people about wealth management.

Find out where this year's programs fall on the map.

Educators at colleges featured in Financial Planning's annual schools list offer up their favorite titles for young and prospective planners.

Courses at historically black colleges and universities are making the planning profession more accessible to students who’d never considered the career.

Even as the prospective client base grows more diverse, a majority of advisors remain male, white and over the age of 50.

Distinguishing features of undergraduate and graduate programs for advisors offered by leading colleges and universities.

Firms are doubling down on efforts to boost the ranks of women advisors.

It's time to face the music: RIAs expect 41% of their clients will be Gen-Xers or millennials in five years, according to a TD Ameritrade advisor sentiment study.

About 40% of clients will be Gen X-ers and millennials in five years — and the industry is facing a succession problem. Kate Healy, managing director of GenNext at TD Ameritrade Institutional, discusses how RIAs can prepare for the future.