Diversity and equality

"Real diversity and inclusion is when we achieve gender parity and adequate representation of ethnic backgrounds," says Monica Giuseffi, principal of financial advisor inclusion and diversity at the firm.

The mostly white and male financial services industry has been glacially slow to adapt to a country — and client base — that is becoming increasingly non-white and female.

As technology forces rapid evolution, conditions will improve for entrepreneurial women.

Finding success has gotten a lot harder for young advisors today, says Raymond James Complex Manager Tony Barrett.

No one organization can do it on its own, FPA President Shannon Pike said.

It's a draining process for clients, but financial planners can provide real support.

When experienced advisors mentor new planners, they transform the profession in the process.

Allan Boomer, managing partner of Momentum Advisors, shares his best counsel on making it in a challenging, yet rewarding profession.

Kobby Okum of Edwards Jones details what his greatest challenge was as a newcomer to the profession.

Wealth manager Kobby Okum shares his expereince on challenges faced by newcomers to the planning profession.

RIA owner Allan Boomer shares his experiences of finding success as new member of the profession.

How Hurricane Harvey and mentoring efforts helped two advisors reframe their thinking about their industry and themselves.

The Ariel Investments president is an advocate for the increasing the number of women and minorities in boardrooms.

In recruiting more women and minorities, the regulator aims to reshape its homogeneous roster of arbitrators.

The relaunched program has the same name, but no new funding, a spokeswoman says.

The firm, which has faced racial discrimination allegations, is trying an alternative approach suggested by a professor at Harvard.

While her performance at the bank has been exemplary, she was denied opportunities that directly affected her pay, the advisor claims.

Firms must offer them to tap new talent amid the industry’s succession problems, the custodian says.

How one planner’s pro bono work changed how she approached teaching her children about financial matters.

None of the FP50 are close to equalizing their ranks of men and women.