Practice management

Many CPAs are passive in nature and afraid to ask clients to pay them extra for financial advice. Yet, often they are better positioned even than planners to suggest tax-efficient investment strategies.

Fidelity survey finds that wealthy investors are especially upbeat about consumer confidence and spending right now but still remain very concerned about real estate prices.

Advisors and firms need to get over their aversion to audits and, instead, use them as an opportunity to improve client service and internal efficiencies.

Employees are willing and able to save more money for retirement through their workplace retirement plans. They just don’t know the best way to do it.

Beverly Hills Wealth Management, a wealth management firm serving high-net-worth individuals, families and businesses, announced the hiring of a new marketing director and the launch of its new Public Agency Financial Advisory division.

Janney Montgomery Scott has selected VestmarkONE to expand its managed account capabilities while providing enhanced operational efficiency.

The firm will be rolling out PriceMetrix CommissionCheck to more accurately assess the value of its services.

TD Ameritrade Institutional attracted 120 breakaway brokers to its platform for independent registered investment advisors in the third quarter of last year, a nearly 50% from a year earlier.

Transamerica retirement survey finds that unemployed and underemployed Americans face an uphill battle to recoup the assets they’ll need for retirement.

Actiance announced the first social media enablement platform to work with Salesforce’s CRM data, allowing advisors to track and analyze sales discussions with clients in their blogs, on Twitter and other popular social media sites.

Regardless of size, the most widely cited response to the question of whether a fund firm will cut spending on technology this year is: We won't.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has ordered five firms to pay $117,425 in fines and restitution to customers for violation of municipal securities trade, pricing and supervisory rules.

The FPA and FiPath for Advisors announced a strategic partnership that will allow FPA members to access a variety of online marketing and educational tools.

The addition of The Lerner Group is the seventh advisor team to join HighTower in 2012, and the 32nd team to join the partnership since it launched.

LIMRA survey finds that three in five people who work with an advisor contribute to a retirement plan while only 38% of people doing their own financial planning invest in similar long-term investment plans.

Wireless networks, mobile devices and cloud computing have transformed the way advisors do business. How can these innovations change your business?

On eve of law's second anniversary, regulators face heavy scrutiny over how they will implement remaining Dodd-Frank rules. Many key regulations have yet to be seen.

Investment Centers of America beefs up its practice management program with newly created senior position.

When LPL Financial sought to improve its highly successful Model Wealth Portfolio platform, its advisors made a couple of requests: make it easier for us to select securities and to rebalance our client portfolios.

The head of the Financial Services Institute has delivered a pointed letter to House committee leaders criticizing the efforts of the Department of Labor in developing a new definition of the term "fiduciary" that would cover financial professionals providing advice to retirement plans.