Because of potential tax and compliance implications, they must tell the company if they are working from a location other than their home address.

As one of the fewer than 1,400 black CFPs, I hope to be a gateway to economic empowerment and generational wealth for the African-American community, writes planner and contributor Zaneilia Harris.

The firm’s growth plans come as the industry experiences a new wave of consolidation among custodians and fintechs.

The No. 1 IBD revealed new details of its W-2 affiliation after it followed rivals into the employee channel with an acquisition it made last year.

“We basically had clients demanding that we find a new home,” after Wells Fargo failed to secure PPP loans for them, an advisor says.

The number of advisors registering with FINRA has fallen since 2016, as more planners elect a fee-only model.

The St. Louis-based firm claims its rival “instructs incoming recruits to compile client information from their former firm” as a matter of course.

Tax-rate arbitrage is one approach, but it’s far from the only one, according to contributor Michael Kitces.

The new recruits cited their new employer’s technology platform as motivation for making the career change.

The new additions help offset some recent departures at the wirehouse.

The independent broker-dealers big enough to serve the most financial advisors enjoy advantages but face distinct challenges.

Amid coronavirus-imposed lockdowns, the firm will retool and retrain approximately 3,000 young advisors.

The wirehouse added a pair of veteran advisors from its rival after picking up several new hires in recent weeks.

The firm is dropping management fees on robo accounts with $10,000 to $50,000, turning to a minimal per-month charge instead.

The Minnesota-based Falldin-Mattson Group was previously at Morgan Stanley.

It will be the largest bank channel team at the IBD, with its former clearing house Pershing taking a hit.

The cuts are among the first under new CEO Kentaro Okuda, who since taking the reins has said an existing $1.3 billion restructuring plan is no longer enough.

The firm allegedly didn't disclose its parent company paid a teacher union entity $10,000 a month “for its exclusive endorsement” as its preferred financial services partner, according to the regulator.

An all-woman team joined the firm in Miami while a branch manager is installed in a new Northern California office.

The majority of advisors don’t understand how much of a positive difference they can make for their clients, says advisor Deborah Fox.