Practice management

A segmented market is ready to embrace scale, says Raymond James president Bill Van Law.

Michael Parker joins the regional firm as it ramps up recruiting efforts, netting a number of large wirehouse teams.

Practices can almost get rid entirely of expensive outside accounting services.

The certification tells clients you have their best interests at heart. After that, is the name of the school important?

Check out these three-steps to broaden the firm’s reach from sea to shining sea.

Russia, Brazil, and Canada saw big jumps in their populations of high-net-worth investors last year.

How Hurricane Harvey and mentoring efforts helped two advisors reframe their thinking about their industry and themselves.

Most advisors don’t have required safeguards in place, one expert says.

The storm devastated Puerto Rico, which has seen a surge of client complaints.

27 firms have signed on to the standard, but state regulators and industry groups are pushing for more.

The president looks to fulfill a key promise from his campaign.

State examiners are finding more shortcomings. At the same time, advisors face bulked-up regulators probing more aspects of their practices.

"This is a window for these regional firms to really explode," says Rob Blevins, a recruiter in Dublin, Ohio.

Millennials want mobile-first digital advice, and will invest millions on such platforms.

The key is thinking like a business owner and acting like a CEO, according to a new report.

New FINRA guidelines lay out the consequences.

Newer hybrid products are popular, but they can be expensive.

Having credible, thoughtful answers to clients’ questions is essential to truly meeting a fiduciary standard of care.

The practice left its BD less than a year after John Hancock acquired Transamerica Financial Advisors.

In the wake of cyberattacks at Equifax and EDGAR, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton makes an unusually lengthy statement appealing for RIAs to bolster security.