Practice management

The "reverse churning" case highlights the regulatory gap investors can fall into when moving between brokerage and advisory relationships.

Advisors can guide clients on taxes, financing, buying versus leasing and how to boost their negotiating power.

The first rule of staying on the right side of the SEC's updated marketing rule: Involve compliance early and often.

Erin Reddick, founder of ChatBlackGPT, said advisors can use AI to make their firms more inclusive and diversify and grow their client base.

Within days of a colleague's retirement and having been introduced as their new advisor, Corbin Hoffner left for Raymond James.

It's key for an advisor to have a firm grasp of clients' long-term goals, how much they are spending now and how much they plan to spend in the future.

Tech-savvy firms have found it useful for tasks including marketing, note-taking, summaries, transcriptions, follow-ups and modeling.

Expertly guiding a client through the divorce process can forge long-term bonds that foster practice growth.

RIAs including Abacus Planning Group, Beta Wealth Group, Integrated Advisors Network were accused of violations ranging from making unsubstantiated statements to claiming membership in nonexistent organizations.

Lawyers allege the 92-year-old victim's daughter begged Schwab to freeze her mother's account, but to no avail.