With RIAs increasingly identifying succession planning as a business imperative, here's how financial advisors and firms are investing in the future.

To remain successful in the workforce of the future, advisors will need to adapt and evolve to find new growth and meet clients' needs.

The mammoth coup far outpaces other recruiting deals of recent memory.

More than a third of financial advisors will retire in the next decade in a profession in which nearly 3 out of 4 rookies fail to make the grade, creating a headcount problem for the industry.

The federal banking regulator agrees that the former employees' claims against the failed regional bank don't belong in FINRA arbitration.

Financial advisors Jeff Breese and Brent Mekosh merged their practices as part of the move from the hybrid RIA's former brokerage firm.

Arbitration panels and courts have already shown openness to arguments that deferred compensation is protected under federal retirement law.

The disturbing nature of the claims and puzzling sequence of events add a fraught layer to what was already going to be a challenging CEO handoff from the founder.

An M&A deal brings a fourth office location to the ambitious firm launched in 2019 by Jason Ray and Chelsea Ransom-Cooper.

Forty companies made the 2024 edition of American Banker's annual list of enviable workplace cultures in the financial technology space. Here is a look at some of what makes these firms employers of choice.

Citizens has been on a recruiting and acquisition tear in recent years. Tom Metzger, the recently appointed head of the bank's private wealth unit, says it's just the beginning.

Here's what advisors at the $2 million production level can expect to earn at large and regional firms

The merger "will fundamentally transform the RIA ecosystem," tru CEO Craig Stuvland says.

Higher expenses from the record headcount of financial advisors and a continuous stream of recruits and acquisitions are investing in the firm's future earnings, though.

You'd think making $1 million a year for your firm would be considered a lot. But advisors at that level last year have to bring in a bit more to maintain their take-home pay.

Signature Estate & Investment Advisors will accelerate its plan to reach $50 billion in client assets by 2027 by acquiring a Cleveland-based enterprise with 21 advisors.

Our continued look at compensation for advisors at different revenue levels considers pay for $600,000-a-year producers.

Wireshouses continue to put the squeeze on advisors at the lower end of the revenue-generation scale.

Many advisors will have to produce more this year to make the same take-home pay as last year, Financial Planning's annual analysis finds, with low producers under pressure to move up the revenue ladder or move on.

Are clients' savings working for them? How to best guide them on the pros and cons of Roth IRAs and other savings programs.