Practice management

Are the measures you're taking enough? Compliance expert Alan J. Foxman explains.

These works of nonfiction and fiction can provide inspiration for better practice management and client services.

The four advisers joined the more than 500 lost by the wirehouse in the last nine months.

To give great guidance to clients, focus on removing noise and bias rather than trying to be all things to all clients.

What used to be a complex and expensive barrier to entry for independent RIAs has now become much simpler and cheaper.

The partnership marks the third deal since a major private equity investment in April.

Critical criteria that can raise the market price of an advisers' book.

Firms must offer them to tap new talent amid the industry’s succession problems, the custodian says.

The two advisers bolted in a quarter that saw their ex-firm lose 130 advisers.

Marketing and sales strategies are better received when firms provide information advisers are actually seeking.

The engine of future growth for the top independent broker-dealers is likely to be fees.

"With 15,000 financial advisors, it's hard to change financial planning software. It's hard to change the day-to-day stuff," adviser Jim Denholm III says.

Here are ways to help your high-net-worth clientele invest in exotic categories safely and wisely.

"The numbers are all in a positive direction" as advisers shrug off threats to growth.

Expanding the fiduciary role of CFPs is a good thing — but the fine print is worth sweating.

The RIA's 7th deal in 16 months is for a $160M adviser.

The online experience should reflect what it’s like to work with you.

Nearly $500 billion of funds held by millennials is up for grabs.

The platform provider has inked partnerships with 45 RIAs since 2010 and 10 so far this year.

The sales-first crowd is trying (desperately) to make sense of the new regulation.