Knowing how to price your services may seem like a dark art, but a few simple calculations yield revealing answers.

Independent Financial Partners’ CEO predicts the firm will retain about 80% of its business, despite a daunting series of challenges.

“If you’re not given an avenue to prove yourself, then effort and skill set will only go so far,” Shannon Saccocia says.

Advisors have very little power to fix the health care system, but they can help others manage skyrocketing medical costs.

More advisors can’t ignore the call to go independent.

One thing that excites Dana D’Auria about the industry right now is factor investing, which helped draw her to Symmetry Partners 12 years ago.

The number of clients owning taxable brokerage accounts has increased 10 percentage points over the past five years, while ownership of employer-sponsored plans remained unchanged.

It's the latest hire for the regional firm, which is on a recruiting hot streak.

As sales of LTC insurance plummet, combination products — annuities with LTC riders — are picking up some of the slack, serving as a useful alternative for some clients.

As a senior research analyst at Robo Global, Lisa Chai helps manage a portfolio of index funds with a focus on robotics, automation and AI-related companies.

Sadness and stress are more commonplace in finance than among the broader U.S. workforce. Here’s how you can cope.

Some are forced to retire early because of disability, layoff and health issues, while others fear that the program will reduce future benefit payouts as a result of its financial woes.

The firm broke off from its OSJ and followed four others of its type in leaving the No. 1 IBD after a change in its RIA rules.

The bank subjected the advisor to disparate treatment and made conditions so intolerable that he had no choice but to leave, the advisor claimed in a lawsuit.

Many of those selected have focused their careers on helping women thrive in an industry where nearly 90% of the managers are men.

There are only two ways to transfer IRA assets tax free in a divorce proceeding.

The advisor is the latest to join the high-end wealth manager.

It's time to face the music: RIAs expect 41% of their clients will be Gen-Xers or millennials in five years, according to a TD Ameritrade advisor sentiment study.

The moves come as the employee-owned firm posted record revenues.

About 40% of clients will be Gen X-ers and millennials in five years — and the industry is facing a succession problem. Kate Healy, managing director of GenNext at TD Ameritrade Institutional, discusses how RIAs can prepare for the future.