Practice management

Despite a competitive fight among wealth managers for advisors, clients and industry AUM rankings, most practices are very small businesses — and some advisors want them to stay that way.

The policy issues grow more urgent every year, but lawmakers haven’t passed any significant legislation for nearly 4 decades.

If employees are a company’s greatest assets, then children are a person’s greatest treasure.

An equity investment plan can help clients get over timing decisions, writes Don Bennyhoff.

Profits slumped last year and many investors are now voicing their displeasure with the compensation awarded to senior leaders. A nonbinding “say on pay” vote taken Tuesday passed narrowly, but Chairman Charles Noski indicated that the board will take the results into account when designing future pay packages.

In releasing their annual snapshot, state securities agency officials pledged to provide clarity around the compliance headache for small practices.

Biden’s proposal to raise capital gains taxes on investments profits would hit many business owners, not just ultra-wealthy investors.

When it comes to gifting to a child that isn’t your own, author Erin Lowry writes things do become a tad more complicated.

The factors that had so many predicting go-go growth over a year ago are still very much in place.

Advisors who leave wirehouses face key tax considerations to become successful RIAs.