Financial planning

Fixed indexed annuities have helped drive overall industry growth, as advisors at large B-Ds and wirehouses embrace the controversial products.

Clients can use social media to effortlessly endorse and recommend their investment advisors. Here's what advisors must understand about client testimonials on social media.

How do I balance my personal and professional life online? This is a common social media strategy question among advisors, but it's time to remove the divide.

Adding to the information services Morningstar offers to financial advisors, the company has acquired ByAllAccounts, a firm that provides data aggregation technology for financial applications.

As regulatory scrutiny intensifies, advisors must design and support policies and processes to avoid compliance missteps. New technology tools can help.

Lawyers and clients are considering legal action to obtain new arbitration cases or revisit decisions amid allegations that a former FINRA arbitrator lied about being an attorney during his 15-year tenure.

There are a number of social media mistakes that can trip advisors up. Get these details right to boost your social presence and see your content shared further.

An organization calling itself Anonymous Ukraine has boasted of a huge theft of American debit and credit cards. Many of the card records are old, and some appear to be from earlier breaches. However, the claims have to be taken seriously, investigators say.

There are a number of social media mistakes that can trip advisors up. Get these details right to boost your social presence and see your content shared further.

Across two generational groups, women say they plan to stick with their current planner.

Advisors buoyed by retirement activity, rising risk tolerance.

For RCS Capital's expanding empire of advisors and broker-dealers, the sweet spot will be $300,000 to $3M accounts.

As it turns out, larger and smaller RIA firms face similar compliance challenges.

As firms battle each other to lure advisors, HD Vest focuses on a different talent pool: tax professionals who expand into financial planning.

To build out its planning business, one firm focuses on advisor prospects with files full of tax returns

As service models shift, dually registered advisors have been making big competitive gains. Now the SEC has them in its regulatory sights.

Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network has picked up advisors with more than $424 million in assets under management.

Your team shouldn't suffer abuse. Here's how to protect your staff and know when to bid a bad client adieu.

Structure relationships that factor in a variety of possible outcomes, a case study counsels.

You don't need to be able to do everything - but you should know whom to call when your clients need extra help.