Financial planning

If you want your firm to grow, you need a plan to find and develop smart young advisors. Here's how our firm does it.

Use these exercises to strengthen your interactions with your team and with valued clients.

Wealth management firm Baird has developed a new way to connect with planning students at University of Wisconsin.

Larry Elkin offers specialized estate and tax expertise for wealthy clients. Now his firm handles $1.3 billion in assets, spread across fewer than 200 families.

How will clients react when specialized products underperform well-known benchmarks?

Some younger planners are diversifying activities and income streams to create more fulfilling - and flexible - work.

Don't throw new hires into the deep end. Here are a few smarter ways to help them thrive.

In an exclusive interview, John Taft, CEO of RBC Wealth Management-U.S., expresses concern that looming regulation could hobble a wealth industry just as it finds its stride.

"We believe the things people do over 30 years speaks volumes, and mean more than rumor and innuendo," says Ed Cofrancesco, president of International Assets Advisory, the broker-dealer that hired Jeb Bashaw.

Contributing appreciated holdings to charity can be a tax-efficient strategy.

An extension in the tax break for qualified charitable distributions may come too late for hesitant donors.

Management fees can eat away most of a fund's yields says Vanguard's founder; Plus, what you need to know about Medicaid and long-term care and how two men who saved the same amount for retirement wound up $234K apart

An extension in the tax break for qualified charitable distributions may come too late for hesitant donors.

An extension in the tax break for qualified charitable distributions may come too late for hesitant donors.

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management spells out its plans to serve wealthy clients with complex needs and demands.

Profits are up at the wirehouses, but how do the firms compare to each other at the end of the third quarter?

Competitors are 'welcome to call' clients, says new CEO Douglas Wolford, who replaced David Zier after the latter's suicide -- but none have left, he says.

How many frustrated family members are going to take aging clients' assets away from your management because you don't know how to protect a vulnerable client?

LPL spent $32 million on fines and restitution for the nine months ending Sept. 30 -- about twice the amount the firm spent on such expenses in the prior two years combined.

Raymond James Financial's private client group contributed to record profits for the company on strong performance.