Practice management

Savings rates and asset allocations are the key to making retirement accounts last. Here’s an approach that works.

Advisors who are accustomed to serving wealthier clients may wonder how to most effectively assist a middle-class clientele. Here's how to make it work in your practice.

Security and business continuity concerns must be addressed in service agreements when outsourcing tech operations to a third party.

A new, free app from T. Rowe Price gives advisors key market intelligence in a modern, scalable and user-friendly way.

FINRA's latest cybersecurity guidelines offer a good starting point for protecting your business. Plus, the compliance don'ts of advertising IRA rollovers.

This newly formed $500M RIA specializes in professional athletes and the corporate elite.

Why the old tricks that many investors once used to gauge retirement allocations no longer apply; Plus, the use of private health plans surge as Medicare and Medicaid turn 50 and tips for a smarter retirement investing strategy.

Clients often resist their advisors when it comes to selling losers in their portfolios – especially when it means a larger tax bill. Here's how to loosen their grip.

If our goal is to motivate our clients to engage in financial planning, we need to find the best way to facilitate their learning.

Why working clients are advised to avoid borrowing from their 401(k) plans to fund their summer vacations; Plus, how Americans left $24 billion in retirement money on the table last year and the seven best places for your clients to retire overseas.

As long as a nonprofit group stays "on the right side of the line -- even though either you or I would say what they are doing is wrong -- it's still protected by 'judgment,'" or a right to broad discretion in decision-making.

It's important to educate doctors before they start receiving large paychecks so they can make informed financial decisions as their incomes climb. Here's how one firm has tackled this issue.

To help improve their online presence, Fidelity announced two new offerings for advisors.

While the 4% rule was created to set a minimum income floor, that doesn't mean spending can never be raised. Here's a better approach to withdrawal rates.

Clients should not be worried about the impact of plunging Chinese stock prices; Plus, six Social Security withdrawal strategies everyone should know.

Thomas J. Buck, an ex-Merrill Lynch and RBC advisor who once oversaw $1.2B in client assets, consented to FINRA findings that he "willfully committed fraud."

One goal is to fully automate LPL's roughly 20 million pages it uses each year and eliminate the experience of working in an office over-filled with files.

The firm pursued the advisor for a bonus clawback while the advisor in turn sought damages for alleged discrimination and breach of good faith.

A recruit from the banking channel at Wells Fargo moves to the regional's independent broker-dealer.

Comparing its authority to that of sororities, country clubs and other trade organizations, the CFP Board convinced a federal judge to throw out planners' fee only lawsuit.