Practice management

‘Dare to be vulnerable,’ planner advises colleagues at FPA conference.

Most advisors agree that having a defined and effective communications plan is critical, but far fewer give themselves a top rating for having such a plan. Here are five steps advisors can take to improve their client communications.

Social Security's strict disability rules; How to invest when the world is in chaos; New singles majority is bad news for Social Security

New online advisory services are turning up the heat for advisors. Know how to arm yourself.

One of the three allegedly stole $11,134 from a bedridden customer who suffered from multiple sclerosis.

"One thing we can tell you is our opposition was there before us," says FPA's director of advocacy. "We heard over and over again the argument that if a fiduciary standard were extended to broker-dealers the middle market would be hurt."

Small businesses can turbocharge their retirement plans; The gift of a retirement account is a lifetime asset; Why Americans keep treating their 401(k) plans like a piggy bank

Many parents are not saving enough for their children thanks to their own unpaid student loan debts, according to new study from the CFP Board.

Designing comp plans with many grid levels is one way credit unions can boost advisor productivity, according to a report from Kehrer Bielan Research & Consulting.

Want to know what matters most to the people who make your business run? Here’s how to set up a panel to get better client feedback.

As competition for talent increases, the best way for RIA firms to hold onto top-tier employees is to make it worth their while. Schwab's 2014 RIA Benchmarking Study highlights three major steps toward building a good compensation plan.

"Any effort to put broker-dealers and advisors into the same box is probably not going to work," says a former deputy director of the SEC's Division of Investment Management.

Ane S. Plate was banned for allegedly looting more than $140,000 from a customer account.

3 things every spouse must know about Social Security; Top retirement expense is your home; Financial simplicity should be a retirement priority

Thanks to a continued economic recovery, strong equity market performance, rising real estate values and record domestic oil production, wealth growth rates in the U.S. strongly outpaced global averages.

"We want to focus on what advisors can do to prepare for the next generation or two," says NAPFA chair Robert Gerstemeier.

How fair are the tax systems in the states your clients live? That, of course, depends on how you define "fair." Based on a new study that claims to do just that, here's how state tax systems stack up.

The Senate Banking Committee debated a host of regulatory relief issues Tuesday, among them the question of whether examiners are holding small banks to unreasonable standards.

314 taxpayers have IRAs averaging $258 million each; Why your 401(k) is missing $273K; With Calpers quitting hedge funds, other investors reflect

An ex-Morgan Stanley advisor represented himself in a contract dispute with the firm before FINRA, and the arbitration panel assessed him over $200,000 in fees.