Floyd’s slaying led to industry leaders promising to prioritize matters of diversity, equity and inclusion. Here’s how far some of those promises have gone.

Join Maggie Kimberl, President of the Bourbon Women Association for a peek behind the scenes of the bourbon industry. Learn more about the women that are rising in the male-dominated spirits sector, the proper bourbon tasting technique and a little bit of the history of bourbon.

The veteran journalist explains how he has adjusted quickly to a new beat and his plans for the series in future months.

Specific, well thought out educational strategies can help the workforce reach their retirement goals.

The brokerage sustained a net loss of hundreds of brokers last year after a pause in hiring during the coronavirus, according to its annual report.

Inroads CEO Forest Harper and other organizers of new internship and training programs insist a long-term shift is now possible.

The Future Proof Festival has announced eight new featured speakers who buck the status quo.

Louis Barajas and David Russell discussed their views on how wealth managers can work with and hire more Black and Hispanic advisors and clients.

In a third alternative to an often vexing choice, the pension holder obtains enough life insurance to elect the single life pension at retirement.

The narrative that you can bootstrap your way to wealth is seriously flawed.

To achieve a purpose-driven life after work, critical questions must be asked to seed difficult conversations.

Throughout Black History Month, Financial Planning has covered how the industry continues to confront its diversity issues while acknowledging all of the work that still needs to be done.

The CFA Institute has created a voluntary Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Code for the Investment Profession in the United States and Canada as financial firms wrestle with expanding a more diverse workforce.

A trio of advisors dropped Wells Fargo as practices choose between staying with wirehouses or joining the RIA movement.

Large pockets of the financial planning and wealth management industries have gone back to “business as usual” post-George Floyd.

Retirement plans that shift the approach away from the traditional can reap the rewards, according to experts in an EBRI webinar.

A new study finds that race did not play a significant role in how much consumers trust advisors. But gender was a different story.

With prospects for major tax hikes in the rear view (for now), it’s the time to blueprint ways to reduce clients’ taxable income for ‘22.

Lawmakers want annuities in Americans’ retirement plans in reintroduced legislation.

The “Metrics That Matter” report is a compilation of five articles written by industry pros and academics covering best practices when incorporating metrics into DEI work.