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Respondents say they’re concerned about volatility, regulatory uncertainty and a lack of fundamentals to use in determining the right price for bitcoin.

In a bid to further enhance its capabilities for advisors, the firm is also slashing ETF transaction fees on select funds later this year.

The new recruits signed on with the firm’s independent and employee broker-dealer units.

Evolution Financial Advisors has grown to 86 advisors with $2.6 billion in client assets under Securities America.

The No. 1 IBD also nominated a new board member and tapped key executives for advisor support and government relations.

Without advisor buy-in, scale can't be achieved, the tech executive says.

Advisor headcount reached 2,160 advisors for the first quarter, up a net 43 from the year-ago period.

One custodian is testing the technology in its marketing efforts and anticipates its advisors may — eventually — decide to follow.

The changes follow a challenging first quarter for the firm’s wealth management operations.

The firm said earlier this year that it would deepen cost cuts.

The advisors are the newest additions to the firm’s expanding brokerage ranks.

Independent Financial Partners aspires to be a “very, very small agent for change.”

CEO Walt Bettinger says advisors tell him they aren’t worried about the new pricing model.

An advisor was terminated after accepting money from a brother, who was also a client. Is such a loan allowed?

For one of the new hires, the move was about getting back to “a culture of a smaller, more personalized firm.”

The updates include access to the ultrahigh-net-worth portfolio management and customer relationship management systems.

The regional BD adds two teams with $373 million in assets.

In the first full year under Atria Wealth, the firm added programs from banks and credit unions with $7 billion in assets.

The move will merge capital-markets teams across wealth management and the investment bank in the U.S.

The firm is looking at a range of “different opportunities” for potential wealth management deals, CEO Jim Cracchiolo says.