Practice management

A clear, sustainable withdrawal policy plays a critical role in clients' retirement success. Advisors offer a few ways to get them to stick to the plan.

Investors not only want advisors to earn extra credentials, but they want advisors to work to maintain those credentials, a new study by IMCA finds.

It's clear that leverage was one of the main culprits of the financial meltdown, but what other factors were at play?

Two former wirehouse advisors that managed more than $80 million in client assets have left Wells Fargo to join Raymond James & Associates, the firm's traditional employee/broker-dealer.

IMCA is updating the curriculum and exams for its CIMA certification to better prepare advisors for a changing industry, the association said at its annual conference.

Planners who work with service members and veterans say the U.S. military could do more to help soldiers in financial straits. Here are their recommendations.

Douglas Cowgill, the firm's president and chief compliance officer, attempted to disguise the shortfall from SEC examiners by entering a fake trade in the firm's account records, according to the SEC complaint.

FINRA barred a former bank advisor from the industry for attempting to swindle customers and fined and suspended two others for violating standards of commercial honor.

Advisors are bound to manipulate clients -- and that's not necessarily a bad thing.

It usually pays to wait, but not always. Here's a look at five important factors advisors should consider when developing Social Security strategies for clients.

'If the goal is to maximize value, selling to an external buyer is always better,' says Pershing's Mark Tibergien. 'If the goal is based on commitments to clients and associates, selling internally is better.'

A standalone application, Pocket Risk, helps advisors gauge clients’ risk aversion and anticipate behavior during downturns.

Financial despair is a major contributing cause of suicide among troops and veterans.

New software is helping wealth management firms like Morgan Stanley and Raymond James put the ''social" in their advisors' networking.

Every client-facing industry has embraced social media with both arms -- except wealth management. Advisors and firms need to catch up.

Ex-commanders take new jobs as load-pushing 'advisors.' No wonder service members get victimized.

Among many troops who take their own lives, financial stress is a major contributing factor.

Switzerland’s biggest bank hired Ros Stephenson from Barclays to be global chairman of corporate client solutions, reporting to Andrea Orcel, the investment bank's chief.

A former wirehouse advisor team with $350 million in assets has left Wells Fargo to join RBC Wealth Management-U.S.

'The single most important driver of value by far is growth,' says Dan Seivert, CEO of Echelon Partners.