Commercial banking

With deals like Cetera's purchase of Avantax, Morgan Stanley's of Parametric and JPMorgan's of 55ip, big firms are increasingly able to answer high net worth clients' tax questions without having to send them to outside professionals.

Business owners often can't rely on standard retirement strategies. Advisors explain how goal-setting, diversification and exit planning can secure their financial future.

The many technical planning questions may be moot until spouses can find common ground on money and wealth in general, CFP Board conference panelists said.

In this month's Financial Advisor Confidence Outlook, advisors' feelings about the overall economy and practice performance were up. That optimism could be fleeting.

In a field with very high rates of attrition, financial planners are finding pillars of support in study groups as they work to reach more young customers.

Former Morgan Stanley broker Kathy Frazier sued the firm in 2015 and was later joined by six other Black plaintiffs who also alleged they had been systematically excluded from the best advisory teams and client leads.

Casey Essary is vice president of information security at BILL.

Pat Warren serves as vice president of regulatory technology for BITS — the technology policy division of the Bank Policy Institute. Pat leads BITS' regulatory engagement on cybersecurity, technology and resiliency.

Matthew Schlueter is the executive vice president, operations and technology solutions at Osaic, one of the nation's largest providers of wealth management solutions.

It may be tempting to hire a "2.0 version" of a departing employee, but doing so risks reinforcing stale processes and mindsets.