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The right strategies can make all the difference for advisers.

Investing in property is fraught with risk, but advisers can help clients navigate a complicated and challenging market. Here’s how a few planners have done it.

Many new products are great for the industry and not so great for our clients.

The team includes identical twin brothers and an industry veteran of nearly 30 years.

The group joined the regional broker-dealer from Morgan Stanley.

They play a critical role in recruiting and supporting advisers. See who made the cut for this year's honoree list.

Demographics and competitive forces are destined to weaken the determination to avoid expensive recruiting packages.

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

The regional firm continues to snatch multi-million dollar teams from the wirehouses.

Implementation of fiduciary rule could drive more IBDs to seek safe harbor with large partners.

The group says it wanted to offer clients greater transparency.

The new hires help the firm further expand its presence in the Southeast, an executive says.

The wirehouse pullback on recruiting is seen as an opportunity for regional firms, a recruiter says.

Planners using the latest digital tools report higher AUM than their colleagues, Fidelity says.

Advisers face fewer choices for clients as both the rule and SEC enforcement roil the market.

Even as the board seeks stricter fiduciary rules, there are concerns about loopholes on conflicts and commissions.

The regional firm has been trying to recruit more advisers, particularly those from wirehouses.

The new recruits, who previously worked at Wells Fargo Advisors and Janney Montgomery Scott, also pointed to the firm's affiliation with Raymond James in making the move.

They left to have more freedom in how they work with their clients, one of the new hires says.

Custodied assets from advisers are shifting in unexpected ways, as Financial Planning’s exclusive research shows.