Practice management

Commentary: Firms can more effectively compete with digital upstarts and grow AUM by adopting new strategies that scale the business at a much lower cost.

Take a more strategic look at the role of Social Security benefits in your clients' retirement accounts; Plus, how to play catch-up with your clients' retirement savings and the rules for making penalty-free withdrawals.

A year after they teamed up with the goal of building a $1 billion firm, the two best-selling authors split; "That is how life goes sometimes," Edelman says.

The broker earned $57,000 in commissions off two clients and faces a dozen judgments and liens against him totaling more than $150,000, according to regulators.

Creating a high-end brand from scratch is a daunting prospect, says Jeff Spears, chief executive of Sanctuary Wealth Services.

How one son's distribution mistakes when inheriting his late father's IRA can be avoided; Plus, the IRS and U.S. Treasury say no more lump-sum offers and how one couple plans to retire at 33.

After termites gorged on her home, advisor Carolyn McClanahan found that the challenge of rebuilding taxed her practice and her finances.

The Republican presidential contender says the retirement age should slowly be raised by two years to address Social Security's financial woes; Plus, 7 demands retirees should place on their money.

An arbitration panel ordered the wirehouse to pay two former clients $250,000, a mere 10% of what they originally sought, in a case involving the sale of funds of Puerto Rican municipal bonds.

Jorge Daniel Usandivaras claimed to have been fired for blowing the whistle on what he saw as improper transactions.

While the group moves between wirehouses, Morgan picks up more recruits from Barclays.

JPMorgan Chase said authorities are examining what its wealth management businesses and private bank told customers when selling them the company’s own investment products and enlisting hedge funds.

The trust fund assets will be viable now until 2034, a slight improvement, but Congress still needs to address the program's larger financial woes; Plus, some Medicare recipients could face steep premium increases next year.

Michael Shaw, who left the board amid turmoil over its disciplinary process, could end up working for former investigatory targets with new consulting gig.

Junior recruits entering the business as potential partners have their own take on how to boost business.

Don’t let negative thinking become a self-fulfilling prophecy when starting a practice.

"This disturbs me to the core," Sheryl Garrett says after FINRA election; new FINRA leader says his views were distorted.

This exceptional woman is helping other women transition to better, more financially stable lives.

Why the country's aging population has led U.S. policymakers to seek changes to Medicare 50 years after it was established; Plus, it's never too early – or too late – for your clients to plan for their retirement years and how to fix three retirement-savings flaws.