How advisors can help clients protect these funds when inherited. If they don't, a few small, early mistakes can cause a client to lose most of the proceeds.

About 60 advisors have joined the broker-dealer so far this year, with five advisors and two firms coming on this month.

Startup entrepreneur sees an opportunity to simplify savings plans and financial giving for children, and hook their parents into wealth management in the process.

Industry efforts still have far to go as less than 3.5% of the 80,000 CFP professionals were black or Latino in 2017.

Financial advisors can reduce distractions and increase their profits by outsourcing these functions.

Many of the new hires are A.G. Edwards veterans.

The proposed rule from the Labor Department would allow small companies with a common owner or those in the same trade group to band together and create multiemployer plans.

The inaugural event builds on mounting industry interest in improving its historically dismal record on growing the ranks of minorities and women in wealth management.

This quarter the firm brought on 14 new advisors, who advised more than $1.1 billion in client assets at their former firms.

The No. 1 IBD added a practice with $520 million in client assets from rival Cambridge before walking back a new policy that has resulted in departures.

Military families can use one of these provisions to seriously cut their tax burden. Plus, can clients make an IRA contribution on behalf of a deceased person?

There are specific benchmarks to gauge your client's 401(k) plan — do they measure up?

The firm charges a very low fee but then steers customers to — can you guess? — its own funds.

While tax reform has been a mixed bag for muni bonds, a few factors working in their favor include constrained supply this year, as well as historically low defaults.

In addition to health insurance considerations. people considering this need to determine whether they can afford the missed earnings and the ability to continue building their nest egg.

Advisors see raising their rates as a difficult topic to broach, but one RIA coach has a variety of methods for approaching it.

Sales of the fee-only products have expanded in a major way, but they have yet to win over advisors.

More states should follow in California’s footsteps in making it easier and cheaper for seniors to tap home equity, writes Alicia Munnell, director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

Still, the bank’s revenue-producing operations are split into four divisions, which are all run by men.

The relationship disintegrated because of a dispute about where to best place client trades.