Practice management

Three programs within RBC Wealth Management have catapulted the firm to No. 1 in customer satisfaction.

European hedge fund advisors will soon be faced with the same challenges – and requirements – as their U.S. peers.

European hedge fund advisors will soon be faced with the same challenges – and requirements – as their U.S. peers.

Outflows from long-term funds totaled $4.58 billion in the week ended July 20, the Investment Company Institute said.

A Fidelity Investments survey released on Thursday found that a majority of Americans do not understand how their pensions work.

National Planning Holdings, Inc., one of the nation’s larger independent broker-dealer networks, announced this week it has contracted with business technology firm Erado to supply its more than 3,500 affiliated representatives with compliance services for social media applications.

A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel has ordered Merrill Lynch to pay $8.1 million in compensatory damages to a family corporation that claimed the firm had breached its fiduciary duty with its investments.

Americas Trading Group said it selected NYSE Technologies to provide the backbone for its high-performance execution platform.

In what may be a sign of a tightening of regulation of social media use by investment advisors, the Securities Division of the Massachusetts Secretary of State’s Office is issuing new guidelines and best practices standards that will go into effect next year.

Financial planners become successful through a fierce commitment to building their practices. But too few principals proactively plan for when -- and how -- they will one move on. To avoid being unprepared when the time comes, here's an interactive slideshow outlining some of the key steps in the succession planning process.

Orc Group said it released software to support electronic market making in North America.

Raymond James announced on Monday it nabbed a $500 million team from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

A total approach to financial planning that looks at everything from taxes to 401(k) accounts is an important part of the practice of Troy Von Haefen, founder and owner of Von Haefen Financial Management in Nashville, Tenn.

For many employees faced with the prospect of having to save for rising healthcare costs and for retirement, it's important to understand that it doesn't necessarily have to be an either/or decision.

Practice management tips to gain visibility and get you recognized as an expert.

BNY Mellon said it launched an app that will let its institutional customers move cash and securely access key reports and account information from iPad tablet computers.

Sixty-seven percent of America’s middle-income Baby Boomers expect that their retirement experience will be drastically different from their parents’, a survey by the Bankers Life and Casualty Company Center for a Secure Retirement found.

Ever wonder how much it might cost to properly promote a book or one big initiative? Given the importance of either scenario, you may decide it makes sense to work with a PR firm. You have a lot at stake and should make the most of things.

On the one-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act, Democratic lawmakers and key financial regulators called on Congress to resist Republican efforts to cut funding to implement and enforce the law's sweeping new regulations.

Sharing too much and assuming that you always know what is best are among the surefire ways of pointing clients to the door.