Corporate governance

Summit Brokerage Services will fold 450 advisors into one of the 41 OSJ regions under Cetera Advisor Networks this summer.

The firm has shed fund holdings in defensive sectors such as health care and consumer staples.

Should the board use 1% of its budget for its own oversight? A former board chairman responds to this proposal.

The firm's chief has led growth to an expected $1 billion in revenue this year from $7 million in 1998 when she joined. It's a matter of embracing the sector's evolution, she says.

Adding clients may increase the top line, but it may come at the expense of profits, free time and even happiness.

Unconflicted enforcement of the new code requires monetary investment from certificants.

How to know when you’ve reached that just-right size.

The No. 1 IBD aims to triple its potential target market reach, in part by adapting some aspects of employee services to independence.

Activist investors have taken large stakes in at least 100 of the products so far this year.

High-AUM RIAs at TD Ameritrade’s Elite LINC tell how they grew their firms when they were starting out.