Practice management

Raymond James & Associates recruited a wirehouse advisor who generated over $1 million in revenue, managing more than $120 million in assets.

Morgan Stanley picked up five advisors managing more than $650 million in combined assets from its rivals, according to a spokesperson for the wirehouse.

With cybertheft rampant and regulators keeping watch, financial advisors must help secure their clients' data.

Only about 20% of the mass affluent market have a financial advisor, notes FutureAdvisor CEO Bo Lu, compared with around 60% of individuals with more than $1 million in investable assets.

The Social Security mistake even its reps are making; calculating required distributions from your retirement accounts; should you drink the annuity COLA?

Competitive threat or recruiting target? The wave of retiring baby boomers will change the calculus for client needs -- and that's opening up a new opportunity for CPAs in wealth management.

Planners who started their professional lives in other fields identify the crossover skills that make them successful.

With the number of independent workers on the rise, advisors need to know about the distinct issues that they face.

Wealthy clients need help raising kids who’ll value community well-being and financial stewardship. Here’s how advisors can help.

Here's how Roger Hewins used an accounting firm connection to help create a $3.5 billion RIA.

The third edition of Redtail's highly popular CRM application seems destined to help the company hold its leading position.

Mass-affluent investors are a confused group, so advisors need to set clear expectations about the markets, as well as the help they can provide.

Regulators in other countries are able to act more easily because there are "just fewer decision makers.”

A FINRA arbitration panel ruled a broker caught in an insider trading scandal must pay back over $3 million to Morgan Stanley.

The search among internal candidates continues for a new head of the dispute resolutions unit.

A wirehouse advisor team managing about $400 million in assets has left UBS to join Snowden Lane Partners, an independent firm.

'This is a boom time for these markets,' says Adrian Flambard, deVere's area manager in San Francisco.

FINRA has issued a long-awaited regulatory notice outlining the proposal for a controversial data-sharing system known as CARDS, asking for comments from the industry and other stakeholders.

In a room full of some 1,000 financial planners only about a dozen raised their hands when asked if they like their profiles. LinkedIn exec Jennifer Grazel offers advice on how advisors can make the most of this tool.

The imaginary retirement-income crisis; what happens when your retirement is ambushed; retirement couples' dilemma: the $100,000 difference