Practice management

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.

Steve Wershing, "The Referral Doctor," says if advisors want to get referrals, it’s more important to have people remember what kind of service and performance you delivered than to simply have a collection of fans.

Women age 65 and older live in poverty at higher rates than men even as more of them participate in employer-sponsored retirement plans, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office study.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said the futures commission merchant based in Greenwich, Conn., failed to properly supervise the reporting of activity in accounts of large traders.

In a new global survey, Accenture finds opportunity for life insurers to present clearer, more personalized information to win over these masses.

Seven multimillion-dollar revenue earners are joining Merrill Lynch’s wealth management units in Florida, Michigan and California.

House Democrats on Wednesday introduced legislation that would expand the role of the SEC to conduct oversight examinations of investment advisors, a segment of the financial services sector that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have agreed is under regulated.

Spectrem’s affluent investor confidence index fell to its lowest point in eight months.

Twenty-six year industry veteran Richard Ray is joining Stifel Nicolaus’s Honolulu office as vice president and portfolio manager.

Bank of America has hired more than 30 bankers in the greater Chicago area as part of a broader plan to beef up its services for small-business owners.

Forty percent of Boomers wait until five years before retirement to begin planning, according to a study by Allianz Life.