Practice management

The firm is trying to show advisors how they can use LPL’s resources to “get more at-bats” with prospective clients, an executive said.

The firm continues a recruiting streak that has netted teams managing over $10.5 billion in assets this year alone.

Dan Arnold says behavioral management, automation and portfolio and planning services need to be combined to win future clients.

"Make the process as collaborative as possible," one expert says.

After Sept. 11, 2001, one planner resolved to use his skills as a CFP to assist affected families pro bono and he rallied others to his cause.

There is a way to help reshape deeply ingrained destructive habits.

Michael LaMena's exit continues the management shake-up at the Chicago-based RIA.

The microinvesting site, which now has over 2 million accounts, allied itself with Clarity Money.

Investors want more clarity and better options when it comes to fees.

Five important danger signs that can save advisers a lot of trouble down the road.

The digital firm is opening up a new avenue of advice that could be a model for an industry grappling with the challenge of scaling for smaller accounts.

"Banks traditionally pay higher valuations, but [RIAs] should go into deals with eyes wide open," Dave DeVoe says.

The Swiss wirehouse hit the founding partners of an $8 billion firm with a lawsuit.

As daunting as creating a transition strategy seems, the sooner advisers start the more successful it is likely to be. Here are some tools to start the process.

The Labor Department is receiving a deluge of feedback from advisers and investors on whether to revise its controversial regulation.

The Labor Department has indicated that further revisions to the regulation could be forthcoming.

"It’s never been a better time to be a seller," says investment banker Liz Nesvold.

This year has seen more moves, bigger moves and more expensive moves.

Only about 5% still charge them, according to a Financial Planning study.

Energy was likely a “headwind,” analysts wrote.