Practice management

When you stop worrying about what you can get from others and focus more on what you can give back, it turns out that there’s a lot to gain, writes Tim Gerend.

The firm serves UHNW clients, and the advisors embarked on a search in order to enable clients to have more access to private investments.

Records obtained by Financial Planning detail dozens of worker safety complaints related to COVID. But the problem could be as much about employee relations as it is about the pandemic.

The custodian has 15 firms scheduled to transition before the end of this year. It hopes to migrate each of them over in less than six weeks.

Wealth managers now need to not only meet digital expectations but also surpass them, writes Will Bailey.

The program has historically been high-stakes and cold-calling friendly. Novice advisors can expect something different now.

Launching was the easy part. Our success depended on surmounting three challenges, writes Allan Boomer.

Participants will instead be directed to use internal referrals or LinkedIn messages, according to a person familiar with matter.

Last year, many banks made big, splashy pledges to advance racial equity. Now some of those banks are seeking to hold executives accountable for those efforts through their paychecks.

Cypress Trust in Palm Beach is poised to pull off a rarity: the conversion of a wealth management firm into a community bank. It’s simply another way to take advantage of the ongoing melding of the two financial services sectors, CEO Dana Kilborne says.