Investments

Amid geopolitical uncertainty and fears of a trade war, family offices also show a preference in investing in developed markets.

Talking about the importance of one type of tax planning or another is far different from implementing all of those strategies across the industry.

Fidelity Institutional Wealth Management Services faces competitive threats in an era of ETFs and multicustodian advisory practices. But it has big advantages.

Merrill, BMO and Schwab are among many firms helping clients take out security-backed loans against market gains to avoid capital gains tax hits.

Financial planners who joined the Transparent Advisor Movement's first "Flat Fridays" meetup touched on the difficulty of explaining the industry to consumers.

At their institutional investor day, Charles Schwab executives say they see a huge opportunity in arranging securities-backed loans for firms in its RIA network.

Rossby Financial is deploying a profitability tool as it competes against much larger RIAs for financial advisor talent.

Join us next month for a discussion on whether more clients should be in private markets, how advisors can explain the pros and cons of alternative investments, and just where crypto and digital assets belong.

The hire is part of a BlackRock's plan to strengthen its business with family offices, which it views as a rapidly expanding part of the wealth management business.

The tool to track midsize private companies comes as firms in that category increase, while public firms are on the decline.

The pilot program offers rates better than Coinbase, Robinhood and Charles Schwab and will be rolled out to all of Morgan Stanley's 8.6 million E-Trade users later this year.

Evaluating private equity performance is notoriously difficult due to lack of transparency. Asking these 3 questions makes it easier for financial advisors.

Despite the war in Iran and uncertainty over interest rates, the latest Financial Advisor Confidence Outlook shows that advisor sentiment has turned positive for the first time since January.

The influential planning entrepreneur and the FPA are leading an effort to change a tiered fee structure for continuing education providers that started three years ago.

The Trump administration's push for alternative investments in 401(k)s steamrolls ERISA law, argues Knut Rostad.

Schwab services 16,000 RIAs with 2,000 different fee structures. According to the industry's largest custodian, the exact costs come down to "a very personalized negotiation" with the firms.

Blue Owl has borne the brunt of investor angst around private credit and their non-traded BDCs after a scrutinized and eventually scrapped merger of two of its private credit funds in November led the manager to halt redemptions from the non-traded vehicle.

The firms' collaboration shines a light on how the wealth management business works today and how it is evolving, as advisors weigh independence against the risks of "poking the bear" when they leave.

Matthew Pallai said he has no doubt wealth managers explained the risks of private credit when recommending it to clients, but the recent rush to withdraw money from credit funds suggests "they probably should have said it more often and said it louder."

Schwab limits the proportion of assets that its advisory partners can hold in risky long-short SMAs to 30% of the total.