Practice management

The firm is maintaining control but dropping its FINRA registration as the sector’s rising expenses and lower margins fuel consolidation.

If this year has taught our industry anything, it’s that the key is to stay nimble.

The bevy of choices can feel overwhelming. Here’s where experts recommend advisors get started.

It’s a big decision, and getting it right the first time around can avoid a lot of headaches, experts say.

Investor advocates, religious groups and proponents of ESG investing argue the changes are a gift to business lobbyists that will muzzle corporate critics.

The company has been experimenting with ways to recruit more women and minorities, including a program to hire professionals who had left banking.

The firm’s new technology will allow advisors to “get into the weeds” of underlying portfolios with clients.

The majority of planners intend to work remotely at least one day per week through 2021.

Relations between the world’s two largest economies are at the lowest point in many years.

The number is behind previous years, but the firm’s new head of business development says independence is more appealing amid the coronavirus.

While some industry employees are eager for the normalcy of their offices, others are more reluctant as experts predict another rise in virus cases.

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Choosing their own technology for clients was a big draw for the advisors, who affiliated with Kestra.

That decision was “heavily debated” and so far the company has found that its operations have fared well with remote work, Jose Minaya said at a conference.

The “one day at a time” mantra was particularly helpful in leading my team and clients through the COVID-19 pandemic.

No vaccine will return advisors and clients to pre-COVID-19 times— it’s time to let go and keep building.

Ameriprise, for example, has hosted more six times as many advisors virtually than it did in person last year.

Several companies said this week they’re slashing expenses as the economy limps along. Others would prefer to keep investing in new technologies to better gauge which changes in consumer behavior will stick.

Three out of the top four RIA custodians compete directly with their RIA clients through their networks of branch offices and call centers.