Practice management

Manish Dave, who has been with the firm for 18 years, oversaw a headcount that was formidable but stagnant in recent years.

Industry experts and analysts take comfort in the firm's choice of Rich Steinmeier as interim CEO and say they see little reason to expect serious disruption.

The technology could change the way many financial advisors interact with their clients, but that evolution will come with important questions, an expert says.

Planners Carolyn McClanahan and Dana Anspach discuss how the client expenses work for their advisory practices as more firms rethink their approach.

The burgeoning "after loss" industry has the potential to differentiate RIAs from the competition as it fills a service gap in advisory practices, writes one of its pioneers.

The second annual Private Business Owners Survey by Brown Brothers Harriman found that over one-third of private business owners said their family's values are different from those of the family business.

LPL directors terminated CEO Dan Arnold's employment after an outside law firm found comments he had made to employees had violated the firm's code of conduct.

Financial advisors may have varying levels of familiarity with these areas of services, but experts provided a blueprint on how to focus this key planning discussion.

The change, one among several at the firm's top, follows on a year that executives have deemed one of the firm's most difficult in decades.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management's automated tax services platform, 55ip, has rapidly expanded with partners including BlackRock, Fidelity and Raymond James Financial as demand to manage client taxes accelerates.

A pair of wealth managers stand accused of allocating trading gains to themselves and losses to their clients in a way that had "nearly zero" chance of happening at random.

A recent UBS Investor Watch report highlights a deeply divided country in which many view the economy as the main issue this election season.

Financial advisors can delight their newest customers by steering them away from the typical traps, deploying new strategies and using technology, experts said.

Whether boutique, midsize, regional or national, each RIA asset level requires distinct strategies and significant sacrifices.

Top innovators at Microsoft, Salesforce, FP Alpha and more, will speak on where AI is headed in wealth management at Financial Planning's ADVISE AI conference next month.

Merrill and a partner firm were accused of running a complicated yield enhancement strategy, or CYES plan, of the type that has long been in regulators' crosshairs.

A pair of SEC commissioners say the treatment of the brokerage firm Qatalyst shows industry watchdogs expect nothing short of perfection with regulatory matters.

Financial advisors' jobs won't be eliminated by AI, but their roles are rapidly evolving to keep up with new client demands and oversee new tech to prevent hallucinations.

Here are some of the key takeaways from a sampling of the many substantive discussions at Huntington Beach last week.

These seven financial advisors — career changers, innovators and community leaders — are changing wealth management. Here are their stories.