Financial planning

Schade replaces the San Francisco firm's co-founder and chief executive, Brodie Cobb, who suffered serious injuries in a bicycle accident last year.

Almost half of the advisors in a new FPA study say they don't have a retirement plan; even more fail on business and succession plans.

The enhanced site allows advisors to alter certain components of their profiles at will -- though not their disciplinary history.

Here's how to help clients maximize both the charitable and tax benefits of any donation.

Investment advisors will play a critical role in helping the nearly 80 million baby boomers and future generations develop a sustainable plan for retirement, a pair of senators said on Wednesday.

Expansion-minded Savant Capital Management has bolstered its presence in the vibrant Chicago metropolitan market, acquiring Paragon Advisors, a $150 million firm in Naperville, Ill.

Looking to expand your team and boost performance? Executive search veterans Kathy Freeman Godfrey and Jeff Warren have a few suggestions.

A big LPL practice with $3.7 billion in assets under management is picking up a $300 million Chicago-area firm.

Even as the SEC is contemplating an expansion of fiduciary rules to include broker-dealers who operate in the retail space, some advocates argue that the regulatory interpretation of the responsibilities under a fiduciary standard has strayed from common-law precedent and become dangerously diluted.

A new HighTower project tries to determine whether the aggregated opinions of advisors and staff can offer meaningful insight into portfolio allocations.

The convicted Ponzi schemer, now serving a 150-year prison sentence, says in an interview with MarketWatch that his defrauded clients should have probed more.

World economic growth will pick up next year, paced by improvements in the U.S. and the euro area, Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer of Pimco, said in an interview.

NetVEST, which is returning to LPL, has approximately $200 million in client assets and specializes in establishing revocable and irrevocable trusts. The firm had been affiliated with Ameriprise for the past year; but had been with LPL for almost 20 years before that, however.

Quiet and peaceful Valley Forge-Pa. is not a place where one would expect to find one of the most successful financial businesses in history — a far cry from the hurry and shuffle of Wall Street. But Vanguard's home there speaks volumes about its ability to maintain its reputation as the lowest-cost provider of mutual funds and ETFs since John Bogle founded the company in 1974.

One of the most challenging things advisor Dave Grant faced when setting up his RIA was deciding on a CRM system.

For Jeffrey Thomasson, founder of Oxford Financial -- the largest firm on Financial Planning's 2013 RIA Leaders list -- smooth waters means it’s time to rock the boat.

A quarter of households aged 50-59 are "advice opportunity" households, a new study by Cerulli Associates shows.

At first, using social may take a bit longer as you get comfortable, but once you master the tool it will become second nature and will likely become your most powerful marketing and client engagement tool.

Some advisors question the time, energy and creativity involved in blogging, but here are some ways it's helping solo advisor Dave Grant's practice.

The fast-growing Kansas-based advisory firm with national ambitions has planted its flag in New York City, signing on RR Advisory Group.