For several years after the breakdown of a deal to sell a practice for $3.6 million, the parties have been accusing each other of violating the terms.

The deal valued at $140 million plus earnout payments will enable the No. 1 IBD to tap into an OSJ's growth while remaining its brokerage, custodian and RIA.

While most midsize firms are folding into the largest players, the company could take an alternate path if it builds on its record recruiting.

The RIA aggregator tacked on an additional $21 million in annual revenue through just two of the transactions.

After its spinoff from giant accounting firm RSM, the newly standalone firm struck an agreement to add on to its existing base of $13.5 billion in client assets.

The announcement, higher wealth profits due to rising interest rates and record recruited client assets ushered the tax-focused firm into its latest phase of change.

The new firm joins a movement that also drew a growth capital investment of $200 million into burgeoning RIA aggregator Sequoia.

What would you do if you were suddenly debt-free? Millions of student borrowers are about to find out.

For some borrowers of FFEL and Perkins loans, the Department of Education has some bad news.

One of the most active dealmakers in the industry attracted a high net worth practice that chose it out of an expanding group of potential suitors.

When President Biden unveiled his plan for student debt relief, borrowers had many questions about what they needed to do. Now, a month later, there are some answers.

The Swiss bank's cancelled $1.4 billion acquisition of the robo-advisor means extra money for shareholders.

Plus, a new Morgan Stanley retirement portal for advisors, and a DEI focused podcast series from the BLX Internship Program.

Millions of parents have taken out student loans for their children, but only some of them are eligible for forgiveness under a new executive order. Here's a look at who qualifies.

Wall Street analysts have presumed that $1.4 billion is now just too much to pay for Wealthfront, but price isn't a sufficient explanation.

The deal would have been Ralph Hamers' biggest transaction since becoming CEO less than two years ago.

Officials say the decision to call off the acquisition, first announced in January, was mutual.

An innovative hybrid firm's new brokerage displays how the industry is placing advisory business at the center of its well-financed plans for the future.

After a longstanding relationship, the New York alternative investments firm buys a chunk of the Swiss bank.

Buyers and sellers are overhauling their firms by folding in accounting and newly-launched independent advisors.