Practice and client management

Advisor advocates say they are beginning to look to civil courts and other FINRA alternatives to get erroneous customer complaints removed from their clients' online records.

You'd think making $1 million a year for your firm would be considered a lot. But advisors at that level last year have to bring in a bit more to maintain their take-home pay.

Michael Nathanson will replace interim chief Dan Glaser but remain the chief of The Colony Group as the RIA aggregator consolidates its ranks out of the public eye.

New financial planning questions on the accounting exam could attract more young people and encourage current practitioners to explore the burgeoning ties between the fields.

Our continued look at compensation for advisors at different revenue levels considers pay for $600,000-a-year producers.

Research shows wealth managers have much greater confidence in the new technology than their clients. Here's how to shrink the gap.

A lover of Tesla and AI technology, Orion's Brian McLaughlin warns that for most, it's still too early to trust AI to make financial predictions.

Wireshouses continue to put the squeeze on advisors at the lower end of the revenue-generation scale.

Many advisors will have to produce more this year to make the same take-home pay as last year, Financial Planning's annual analysis finds, with low producers under pressure to move up the revenue ladder or move on.

Amid a busy April for big hires, compliance tech provider COMPLY and wealthtech platform TIFIN have brought on industry vets Michael Stanton and Jeannette Kuda, respectively, aiming for strategic growth.

Turns out clients are as mistaken about tax preparers as they are about taxes.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups contend the Federal Trade Commission has exceeded its authority in nullifying contracts that prohibit employees from switching jobs to competitors.

Podcasting is the new blogging. Everyone's doing it, and you should, too, right? Not so fast.

Just as a sports car needs paved roads for optimal performance, planning software without fast, accurate and accessible data makes for a bumpy ride for financial advisors and their clients.

Advisor360° names former MassMutual exec Mike Fanning as its new CEO

Few U.S. adults have done any estate planning. Even fewer have done so for their pets. Advisors can help them get started.

Fidelity launched a new hub aimed at helping advisors who said they're struggling to grow organically. The move comes as LPL Financial and BlackRock launched similar hubs this year.

Three advisory teams managing $10 billion in the San Francisco area are among an ongoing wave of departures from the biggest U.S. bank.

Experts say that busy entrepreneurs often miss incentives and advantages available to them. Financial advisors and tax professionals can give them a nudge.

The CEO of the RIA "roll-up" outfit thinks that ongoing industry consolidation doesn't necessarily mean all firms will start to look the same.