Economy

Thanks to the latest tax laws, real estate investment trusts are more attractive for taxable accounts than in past years.

Weissbluth will step down as CEO and become chairman.

The firm’s most recent hires are 2 advisors overseeing more than $550 million in client assets.

Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein remain prominent public figures, but many other crisis-era CEOs have kept low profiles over the past decade.

The Advisor Group IBD acquired Capital One’s in-branch brokerage unit last month, but it hasn’t stepped away from traditional recruiting either.

The firm is trying a new approach 10 months after quitting the Broker Protocol.

Jean McCrave Baxter claims colleagues made sexual jokes and she was denied advancement opportunities afforded to male co-workers.

The ongoing shift away from commissionable products is driving major changes in the space.

The IBD network is following its rivals in launching a centralized program on succession planning and acquisitions.

Five fired and barred former registered reps stole more than $1 million from clients over a four-year period, according to the regulator.

Advisors John Burg and Tamara Colon moved their California practice to the regional firm.

Leave this bad influence back where it belongs — in high school.

Violating this FINRA rule has extremely serious consequences including termination and disciplinary action.

Divorced women are more financially prepared for retirement than their single, never-married counterparts because they are more likely to secure their marital home after the separation.

The advisor used about $410,000 to pay back investors in Ponzi-like fashion to keep the scheme alive, the regulator says.

The regional BD continues its recruiting spree, adding to the more than 400 advisors it’s already hired in the past year.

The boutique wealth manager has been aggressively courting top brokers.

Christopher Rollins worked for Goldman Sachs for 16 years and rose to be a managing director before the firm fired him in February 2017.

Here’s what advisors need to know about the 20% qualified business income rule.

The regional BD's three hires come from Wells Fargo and Ameriprise.