Financial planning

For RCS advisors and brokers, the sweet spot will be individuals and families with $300,000 to $3 million in investable assets, Schorsch says.

Fidelity Investments, the mutual- fund firm best known for its star stock pickers since it was started almost seven decades ago, named former bond manager Charles Morrison to run its asset-management unit.

Here's a sampling of bank advisors who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

RCS Capital wants to buy an investment research firm, an RIA and a family office -- and hold a major industry event modeled on Charles Schwab's annual Impact conference.

Financial advisors to some of the wealthiest Americans see struggling Puerto Rico as an outlier in the $3.7 trillion local-debt market, leading them to add municipal bonds as the steepest federal tax rates in more than a decade loom.

Royal Securities to pay $175,000 in FINRA fines over non-traditional ETF sales, church bonds and other violations.

UBS added a Merrill Lynch team with $2.6 million in production, another Merrill team joined HighTower and RBC recruited two advisor teams with more than $600 million in Texas. But they're not the only ones making big grabs. Here are the most recent moves in the employee channel.

Here's a new look at our top bank advisors based on their ratios of trailing-12 production per assets-under-management.

The husband-and-wife team is the eighth team to join HighTower’s New York headquarters.

An advisor team with nearly half a billion dollars under management has left AXA frustrations with how the firm structures its compensation plan.

Schwan Financial Group's Prepared Heirs program helps advisors connect with second-generation clients.

A digital presence is now mere table stakes. What you really need is a way to upgrade your social media strategy. Start with these tips.

With the advisor population aging and looking to retire, more wealth management firms are stepping up their efforts to recruit and train a new generation of advisors.

The agency plans a deeper focus on the role and duties of financial advisors this year, says chairwoman Mary Jo White.

The company reports asset and revenue growth but "regrettable" advisor attrition.

Moving ahead on priorities announced in January, the SEC says it will conduct examinations of a "significant percentage" of advisors that have not been examined since registering with the SEC.

Cambridge's Amy Webber says promotion is next step in complex internal succession plan.

Without viable succession plans, wealth managers are at risk of slowly drifting off into oblivion -- willing partners in their own firms' demise. It's negligent behavior, and anything but benign.

Firm's partners say they wanted 'control of our destiny -- we wanted to own our own equity.'

ETFs and mutual funds are well-positioned for rising interest rates because they have most of their fixed income holdings in short-term government bonds, according to Morningstar Inc.