Practice management

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.

Why timing is important for clients filing for Social Security; Plus, how to decide whether your client should invest in a 401(k) or a Roth IRA.

One thing she didn't mention: the last time the U.S. taxed capital gains roughly the way she wants to was during the depths of the Great Depression.

While raising the tax rate could help address Social Security's funding imbalance, there are other ways to shore up the program; Plus, when $1.5 million isn't enough to retire.

The team went all in on Kate Moss.

Advisors' use of social media is on the rise. Here's how you can be both social and compliant.

UBS lost a two-decade veteran to rival Merrill Lynch.

For the third time in the past year, the wirehouse discharged a long-time advisor with a big book of business, this time alleging "inappropriate workplace behavior."