Is it possible to keep saving for retirement after you've lost your job? A former tech worker in New York asks the experts.

An industry report finds the largest independent brokerage, with its supported independence offering, had the biggest net headcount gain last year.

Almost all retirees had regrets about how they planned for life after work. Is it possible to ever be prepared?

From baby boomers to Generation Z, Americans have a wide range of advantages and disadvantages when it comes to saving for retirement. Here's how they compare.

Clients across generations have different expectations of their financial advisors. Here's how everyone wins.

The firm's big tech investments and history working with banks attracted Wintrust, the CEO of its wealth division told FP.

After IBM unfroze its pension, some wondered if this was the start of a defined-benefit renaissance. Researchers say that's not what it was about.

Too many clients are having important conversations with financial planners who don't share a similar background. That needs to change.

Yesterday's historic "firsts" blazed a trail for those of today — with a moral and business imperative for the industry to learn from these five figures' examples.

LeCount Davis was the first African American to earn wealth management's "gold standard" of certifications. Today he's helping others do the same.

Though she is widely considered the first African American woman to be a stockbroker, some blurriness surrounds what is known about the rest of her life story.

She mixed outspoken activism with business pragmatism, launching a bank that helped hundreds of African Americans buy homes in her longtime community.

Inspired by the examples of his grandmother and his mother, the Houston fixed-income legend launched one of the largest Black-owned investment management firms.

Wells Fargo's Charlie Scharf and Morgan Stanley's James Gorman recorded the biggest gains among the CEOs whose compensation has been disclosed so far.

White Americans still have twice as much retirement wealth as savers of color, research shows. Here's what experts recommend to shrink the gap.

The Providence, Rhode Island, company has recruited a head of wealth management advisors and a head of private wealth managers as part of a new strategy to reel in high-net worth clients.

The nuance around RIA compensation belies an often overheated debate and the ability for planners these days to make their own choices.

The firm's recruiting chief shared the latest updates with FP amid record financial advisor headcounts and an effort to expand beyond its traditional label as an IBD.

The profession displays a stunningly high rate of attrition in the first year. Here's how wirehouses and regional brokerages must try to change with the times.

The gift outlays — and the many rules and potential duties tied to them — can affect clients' long-term trail toward RMDs, Roth IRAs, the FAFSA and other areas.