Fewer than half of advisors are happy at their current workplaces.

As Columbia Threadneedle’s head of North America marketing, Leslie Walstrom is focused on elevating the division beyond the traditional sales support.

As she advanced in her career, Franklin Templeton's Dina Ting had many mentors who helped her navigate challenges.

The first of her family to work in financial services, Dina Santoro leads the strategic product and marketing agenda for Voya Investment Management.

In a bid to further enhance its capabilities for advisors, the firm is also slashing ETF transaction fees on select funds later this year.

The new recruits signed on with the firm’s independent and employee broker-dealer units.

Since joining Mackay Shields as an investment management assistant 46 years ago, Lucille Protas is now president, executive managing director and COO.

Since making the decision to join Jeffrey Gundlach at DoubleLine, Luz Padilla now oversees a 16-person team with nearly $9 billion in AUM.

Since starting her career at Vanguard more than a decade ago, Denise Krisko has launched her own sub-advisory business that manages $4.5 billion.

Evolution Financial Advisors has grown to 86 advisors with $2.6 billion in client assets under Securities America.

The No. 1 IBD also nominated a new board member and tapped key executives for advisor support and government relations.

Advisor headcount reached 2,160 advisors for the first quarter, up a net 43 from the year-ago period.

One custodian is testing the technology in its marketing efforts and anticipates its advisors may — eventually — decide to follow.

As director of AllianceBernstein’s emerging markets debt strategies, Shamaila Khan oversees the management of the platform’s portfolios.

As chief research strategist and portfolio manager at AlphaSimplex, Kathryn Kaminski is involved in the oversight of $6 billion in investment products.

Amid all available career paths, “I think [asset management] just found me," said Julie Genjac, managing director of strategic markets at Hartford Funds.

The firm said earlier this year that it would deepen cost cuts.

The advisors are the newest additions to the firm’s expanding brokerage ranks.

Independent Financial Partners aspires to be a “very, very small agent for change.”

It's vital that planners recognize how women's planning needs are different from men's — while being careful not to lump them into a singular group.