Practice management

Making the right hire can ease workloads and free up time to spend catering to clients' needs.

Bill Hamm’s Independent Financial Partners has grown more than fivefold in 10 years with the No. 1 IBD.

Advisors should conduct a comprehensive suitability analysis before initiating 1035 exchanges.

Research firm Spectrem Group tracked new highs in 2017 across the mass affluent, millionaire and UHNW segments.

Veteran financial advisors need to play an active role in coaching the next generation. Are you an effective mentor?

Many advisors feel like they don't have a compelling personal story, but they probably do — they just have to discover it.

Chances are, you’ve never used it — or even noticed it.

Audit rates are dropping, but there are still triggers that taxpayers can avoid to further reduce their risk.

Firms seeking to recruit high-level talent will have to be creative.

The firm was defined by a culture of “no, no, no,” a top headhunter says as part of On Wall Street’s annual recruiters roundtable.

The $263 million practice’s new IBD reported record recruiting for 2017, helped in part by the movement of advisors following LPL’s massive acquisition.

When your client is a foreign national, it pays to find out if the same regulations apply.

Planners have a natural incentive to be narrow-minded when it comes to investment opportunities. Sometimes it’s better to look for reasons to selectively say yes.

More assets — and teams — are in motion than ever. What's behind the movement?

Instead of thinking about fiduciary purely as an obligation or regulation, advisors should envision it as something much bigger: a way of life.

Compensation levels rose approximately 7% last year despite mounting industry challenges.

A new survey finds that investors prize full and upfront disclosures about fees and conflicts of interest, but advisors fall short.

Planner Greg Phelps, one of the project volunteers, survived the shooting by sprinting across the concert grounds while bullets slugged into the ground.

The claims come after internal struggles at the chapter left the boardroom “untenable,” the association says.

Millennials, Gen X, older workers and current retirees should all think about Social Security slightly differently in crafting their retirement plans.