Independent BDs

This year, Duran said the company plans to aggressively expand its business model, and its brand -- aiming to look more like Starbucks and less like rivals HighTower and Dynasty Financial.

The collective voice of independent financial advisors just got a little bit louder.

Two former wirehouse advisors have gone independent in Baltimore and Bethesda, Maryland.

Securities America has completed its second broker-dealer transition in the past 30 days and added 30 advisors in Washington, Iowa.

Focus Financial has snapped up a big Seattle wealth management firm.

Raymond James Financial Services, the company’s independent broker-dealer, announced Monday it has added a mother-daughter team in Bethesda, Md., with $200 million in assets.

Custodians try different strategies for growth as advisors break away to join RIA firms.

Bank and broker-dealer affiliations help RIAs bear the technology and compliance costs of growth, but can chip away at objectivity.

With fiduciary advisors taking market share from the brokerage firms, will FINRA exact payback? Here's a glimpse of what may come.

This year was a “slower year than many expected,” in terms of financial advisors departing major firms for other pastures, according to Chip Roame, the managing partner at Tiburon Strategic Advisors. “I believe 2013 may be slower, too,” he says.

If there is one sentiment that fiscal policy debates in Washington have taught investors not to expect over the years, it’s optimism, according to the chief market strategist at LPL. Time and again, we have seen our politicians respond to serious questions on the future of our nation’s economy by kicking the can down the road, or worse. Could it be different this time around for 2013?

Celebrating its two-year anniversary with an announcement of its 11-figure status, New York-based Dynasty Financial Partners aims to separate itself from the myriad of firms offering services to registered investment advisors.

With over 1,000 broker-dealers to choose from, how does an advisor navigate the choices, know where to go, and know where to be looking in the first place?

Grabbing a top executive from one of the world's premier technology companies, LPL Financial has nabbed a top technology officer from Dell Inc. to help lead the independent broker-dealer's technology effort.

A little more than a year after launching Retirement Ready, a retirement income program for its advisors, John Hancock Financial Network today announced the launch of a new iPad application and updates to the program.

Beverly Hills Financial Planners, Informative Financial Services, and Ranker-Hanshaw Wealth Management are the newest firms to join Royal Alliance, which has nearly 2,000 affiliated independent financial advisors.

Determined to keep its 48-year-old firm’s “small, hometown feel,” Investors Security of Suffolk, Va., has decided to drop its own broker-dealer and affiliate with Securities America.

LPL Financial, the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer, announced Monday that Legacy Financial Planning has transitioned to its broker-dealer platform.

Raymond James has lured an LPL team of financial advisors in Towson, Md., that will operate under its independent broker-dealer.

The New York City based wealth advisory firm appointed Lyle LaMothe as Non-Executive Chairman of the board and Greg Franks as a managing partner and president. Chris Lappas joined the firm as the chief operating officer.