Practice management

This generation of SRI managers will vanquish greenwashing and help slow-footed government achieve crucial environmental objectives, James Katz writes.

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.

Moves and news at Macquarie, Rockefeller, Vanguard, Orion, and elsewhere in the financial-advice industry this week.

From compliance to technology and succession, advisors may be under the wrong impressions about launching their own firms.

After 10 years at Merrill Lynch, a financial planner felt an entrepreneurial itch; "We should do this."

Move quickly, know your tech stack and use personal email in the planning stage, writes Mark Elzweig.

The key is to think about what clients ultimately want to know, writes finance professor Derek Tharp.

The founder of advisor consulting service Level Best answered FP’s queries about the best and worst practices in wealth management. 

The pandemic has ushered in an ultra-remote environment, complete with more video calls, more e-signing and, inevitably, more stress.

More investors can now invest in private capital markets thanks to an SEC amendment that broadens criteria beyond wealth and income, writes Sophia Duffy.

The annual full-service investor rankings picked a new winner for 2021 while tracking major generational differences.