Diversity and equality

Giant wealth managers and megabanks have a long way to go if they’re truly going to set a new course for the industry’s relationship to a historically excluded group.

"Hopefully one day the industry changes and no one is surprised to see me at a top producer event due to my race or gender, or both," writes advisor Sandra Cho.

Here’s what one advisory firm found were the most common financial planning questions among a historically underserved group.

Sean Kaligh dropped Wells Fargo for LPL, as more planners leave wirehouses during the pandemic.

Despite BLM, #MeToo and other movements for equality and justice, employers don't understand enough about the impact of neglecting DEI on company health.

Not having access to wealth keeps people from participating in the market and from financial inclusion, according to a FINRA panel.

The distinction between the two concepts lies in advocacy and leadership, said executives from Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Citi and Stifel.

Morgan Stanley, Raymond James, Charles Schwab and Truist aim to fuel long-term shifts in advisor recruitment and retention through a series of new programs.

Results published Monday show that 46% of White people are working with professionals to plan their finances, while 38% of African Americans, 36% of Asian respondents and 44% of Hispanic people are doing the same.

Fed up with the traditional brokerage training programs, financial advisors are opening more doors right into independent practices.

The pandemic is changing the game for performance management. It's time to evolve the financial services model.

More than 400 advisors and clients have used CHIP since Dana Wilson started the referral service at the beginning of last year.

The board member of LGBTQ Loyalty Holdings and the company CEO discussed a new ETF that uses a four-pronged ESG screen of large cap growth equities.

20 planners and executives offer starkly different views in the wake of a national spate of racial prejudice and violence targeting the group often typecast as the "model minority."

Independent broker-dealers can find examples for how best to serve, hire, support and promote a historically underrepresented group after a year marked by hate.

The exchange will direct its listed companies to pursue board diversity, including at least one member who is female and at least one who is an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ.

Several of Cure’s staff have allegedly resigned since the comments came to light.

Eileen Cure allegedly wrote in a Skype message that she is not prejudiced but she does not want to interview Black applicants.

In a session at the industry trade group’s conference, planner Lazetta Rainey Braxton connected racial and financial literacy.

To meet the needs of the swelling ranks of women investors, Wall Street needs to grow our own female advisors, writes Judy Morrill.