Independent BDs

Should advisors and brokers have plain-English job descriptions and be required to work in their clients’ best interest? Commissioners will vote on whether to move ahead with key proposals.

Advisor Group firm Woodbury Financial targets the bank brokerage channel.

The advisor, a former employee, has been soliciting more than two dozen clients at the bank, JPMorgan says.

Bill Hamm’s Independent Financial Partners has grown more than fivefold in 10 years with the No. 1 IBD.

Advisors should conduct a comprehensive suitability analysis before initiating 1035 exchanges.

The $263 million practice’s new IBD reported record recruiting for 2017, helped in part by the movement of advisors following LPL’s massive acquisition.

When your client is a foreign national, it pays to find out if the same regulations apply.

Instead of thinking about fiduciary purely as an obligation or regulation, advisors should envision it as something much bigger: a way of life.

The Justice Department disclosed a felony probe the day before the broker’s termination.

Many of the trades should have triggered market manipulation concerns because they involved companies that were barely operating but engaging heavily in promotional activity, the SEC says.