Practice management

As the London games take center stage, former athletes turned financial advisors talk about the big event and their careers.

When relatives are your supervisors and employees a special set of problems arise.

Will cut-rate advisor platforms for mass-affluent customers pose a threat to RIAs?

Insights gained at humble jobs long ago have helped some planners shape their messages to clients.

Don't let short-term needs displace your long-term strategy.

An underrated idea for improving your practice: Join a study group.

Former engineer Lesley Brey creates a planner's paradise for herself.

Its managers acknowledge the trouble in Europe, yet MFS International Value Fund has a large stake in companies on the Continent.

The ranks of the under-30 generation of planners are swelling - and they're ready to make an impact.

When clients divorce, planners must tread lightly to avoid taking sides.

Social media and technology usage has increased among ultra-high-net-worth and millionaire investors, according to a new Spectrem Group report.

Income disparities over the past 30 years have translated into a 25% to 30% retirement savings shortfall for women, according to the Insured Retirement Institute.

You're probably losing business if you haven't figured out what your competitive advantage is relative to your peers. Here's how you articulate that key differentiator.

Financial Services Institute, the advocacy organization for independent financial services firms and independent financial advisors, has tacked on more than 2,500 advisor members with the addition of NEXT Financial Group, Transamerica Financial Advisors and The Strategic Financial Alliance as first-year members.

Wealth managers are still struggling to create a full-service family office practice on a mass scale primarily because most advisors still aren't taking the entire family into consideration. Here are some ideas that can help.

FINRA reached its fifth anniversary Monday. The independent regulator of the brokerage industry said it has levied $254.1 million in fines, since July 30, 2007.

Marketing expert Marie Swifts says creative events help savvy financial advisors build top-of-mind awareness and relationships that last.

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards has unveiled a new framework for its disciplinary arm to follow when taking action against a member, the first such standards the certification group has issued in its history.

House Republicans have charted a course for expedited tax reforms next year in case they control Congress and the White House.

As sharp lines have emerged within a prominent House committee over how to step up examinations of investment advisers, the panel's chairman has signaled that no legislation will advance without broad, bipartisan consensus.