The RIA boosts its platform, loses top execs and faces wary advisors.

Sales dropped by 8% last year, but LIMRA finds reason for optimism in 2018.

The paperwork will be designed like the Form 1040EZ, the shortest federal income tax form.

An advisor who is a former ballplayer set ambitious goals for 2021 with an alternate take on the hybrid strategy.

Seniors who reach the age of 65 and are in good health have the option of opening a Medicare medical savings account.

The Raymond James affiliated firm has been aggressively recruiting from wirehouses in recent months.

Lawmakers agreed to form a congressional committee that would look into multiemployer plans and develop a measure to fix these plans' insolvency woes.

The advisor persuaded the customer to liquidate his IRA and invest the money in a risky and costly options trading strategy the advisor managed, FINRA alleged.

Among recent career changes, Merrill Lynch lost brokers managing $2.2 billion to rival J.P. Morgan Securities.

The brokers previously worked at Wells Fargo, which has suffered from attrition to smaller rivals over the past year.

The right strategy can put them “in the 0% tax bracket,” an expert writes.

“We’re going from a Civic to a Cadillac,” advisor says of the move.

Taxation of retirement plan distributions and Social Security benefits remains unchanged under the new tax law, but retirees are likely to see an increase in after-tax income.

The high-net-worth and ultrahigh-net-worth segments are growing globally “faster than we can grow advisors to cover them.”

CEO Josh Pace credits the smaller custodian’s agreement to be sold to E-Trade for the move.

The proposed budget includes a provision that would give Medicare recipients the option to contribute to a health savings account, which would offer various tax benefits.

The move is the latest in trend of advisors leaving wirehouses for smaller firms.

Although smaller companies could be volatile, those that pay dividends tend to be more mature and profitable.

The firm is tapping a pool estimated by LPL to be as large as 1,200 brokers with $35 billion in client assets.

Robert Moore divided the firm's six IBDs into two channels, promoted a new COO and hired from a rival.