Practice management

For clients fortunate enough to not need them, minimum distributions are not required this year in most — if not all — cases.

April brought the highest unemployment since the Great Depression. Some of these people are our clients.

“The world has become more digital, less global and more local,” says Amy Lo, co-head of the firm’s Asia Pacific wealth division.

Financial advisors’ choices about capital infusions into their practices show “how this industry needs to evolve and mature,” Merchant Credit Partners Managing Partner Rick D'Amico says in an episode of Financial Planning’s Invest Podcast.

Brokers and fund managers are turning to innovation to remain competitive and capture new customers.

The lost assets represent a big hit to the firm’s operations in the small Missouri town where the advisor was based, ex-employer claims.

The privately held firm recruited more than 160 reps in the first quarter on the strength of its balance sheet, CEO Amy Webber says.

The No. 1 IBD added Securities America’s largest enterprise, whose founder says the firm’s new private equity-backed owner made him uncertain about the future.

Advisors who switch firms during the pandemic have tough (virtual) conversations with clients in store.

An RIA platform launched by compliance professionals is growing by offering a smaller home for wirehouse and reverse breakaways, Advisory Services Network COO Cindy Halpern explains in an episode of Financial Planning’s Podcast.

The majority of U.S. workers do not have enough savings to help them in the event of a medical emergency and often turn to their retirement funds for help.

Financial advisors, broker-dealers, custodians and other firms are trying to do their part amid a public health and economic crisis.

Now is not the time to disconnect from supportive networks of other advisors.

My training in virology, laboratory pathology and emergency medicine gives me a different perspective of how to manage our society’s new path forward, writes M.D. and planner Carolyn McClanahan.

CEO Dan Arnold says the pandemic “will create some structural change across the market and the industry.”

Small businesses that manage to get their Paycheck Protection Program loans forgiven may find themselves losing valuable tax breaks, according to new guidance from the Internal Revenue Service.

As soon as the program was announced, I not only advised my small business clients to apply; I also tried to figure out how to take advantage of it myself.

Without centralized IT protocols RIA cyber fraud scenarios are taking on new and nightmarish dimensions — but there are ways for firms to defend themselves.

Phased succession plans that stagger the amount of equity changing hands can help usher in the next generation of financial advisors, PPC Loan Managing Partner Dustin Mangone says in an episode of Financial Planning’s Invest Podcast.

Ongoing health risks will hinder a return to normalcy for the firm and its rivals.