Practice management

While auto-enrollment features on a retirement plan are better than nothing, some experts still worry that workers are not saving enough for retirement.

Planners share their best tips for kick-starting the conversation with prospective clients.

Advisors should reinforce habits that ensure ethical behavior to the point that they become second nature.

President Obama has proposed payroll taxes be reshuffled so the portion that pays for the disability fund would be increased by nine-tenths of a percentage point, but Republican lawmakers want changes to address Social Security's overall financial health.

Advisors generating $5.8 million in annual revenue left Morgan Stanley for Merrill. The team is led by the No. 7 advisor on On Wall Street's Top 40 Under 40 ranking.

The SEC barred an RIA from the industry after the firm was charged with misleading investors -- including falsely claiming that its fund was "SEC approved."

Your success as an advisor hinges on the relationships you build with clients. But before you can start, you must first appear to be someone with whom that is possible.

To justify their higher cost, advisors need to go beyond a commoditized service. If you're merely providing asset allocation or portfolio rebalancing, you're in the danger zone.

Investors in their 20s and 30s are advised to reduce their stock allocations since they are likely to change jobs and subsequently cash out a part of their accounts.

Each of these strategies has been used by one or more elite advisors to generate substantial increases in their performance.

"[W]e made a carefully thought-through decision to remain a private company and to retain our independence," said Eric Clarke, CEO of Orion Advisor Services, one of NorthStar's subsidiaries.

Morgan Stanley lost an advisor producing $883,200 in annual revenue to Merrill Lynch.

IMCA has partnered with MIT to offer an online education program as one of the steps needed for CIMA certification.

Retirement savers lose up to 25% of their savings from "leakages," or pre-retirement withdrawals that erode the assets a client will have at retirement, according to a new report.

A former RBC team that managed $200 million in client assets has signed on with Raymond James' Los Angeles office.

John Carroll affiliates with hybrid RIA Independent Financial Partners and partners with retirement division Pensionmark.

No clarity on how regulators will decide to handle fiduciary standard proposed for broker-dealers, Schapiro said.

After your clients get their finances in order, which includes establishing an emergency fund account and maxing out their 401 (k) plans, then they can look to pay off their mortgage.

Following the success of her latest album and landing three Grammy nominations this year, the megastar's net worth is in the untold millions. With a Merrill Lynch advisor for a father, it begs the question: who is advising the pop star?

Less than half of U.S. workers last year had saved even as much as $10,000 for retirement, according to a study, but catching up is still a realistic goal.