Practice management

These days, many people declare themselves experts in social media and will try to sell you seminars, training, and coaching services. Should you use them?

How do you expand your practice to more than $4 billion in AUM? For one firm, it's by helping clients align their investments with their value systems

MBIA agreed to insure a $1.16 billion pool of mortgages without its employees reading a report the bond insurer now claims was altered to hide flaws in the loans, JPMorgan Chase’s lawyers told a judge.

An SEC advisory committee on Friday recommended that the commission appeal to Congress for authority to collect user fees from advisors to enhance its oversight of the RIA sector and enact rules to tighten regulation of broker-dealers.

Scott Stringer vowed during his successful campaign for New York comptroller to reduce the $370 million in fees the city’s five pension funds pay money managers and consultants annually. His job, which starts Jan. 1, just got harder.

UBS AG, the world’s biggest wealth manager, is targeting millionaire clients in oil-rich Nigeria and Angola as Swiss rival Credit Suisse Group AG withdraws from some African markets.

Blogger, equities analyst and CIO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, Barry Ritholtz responds to the 'counterintuitive claim that portfolio rebalancing doesn’t really work,' in a recent column by Paul Merriman at MarkeWatch.

To solve problems and get fresh ideas, two minds -- or 5 to 6 for that matter -- are better than one. Here are a some study group best practices for advisors.

Senior financial services executives said the industry needed to move more quickly to promote diversity and inclusion throughout the organization.

Janet Yellen’s nomination to be chairman of the Federal Reserve won support from the Senate Banking Committee today in a 14-8 vote, moving her bid to be the Fed’s first female head to the Senate for confirmation.

Community groups are uniting to protest Regions Financial's short-term loan program, calling on the Birmingham, Ala., company to ditch its "Ready Advance" product.

Keith Morris, managing director of Conshohocken, Pa.-based Morris Capital Management Group,has left Wells Fargo to affiliate with Raymond James Financial Services.

The Justice Department’s $13 billion mortgage securities settlement with JPMorgan Chase is a record and also a rarity -- Attorney General Eric Holder’s first big win against a bank at the heart of 2008’s financial crisis.

Dubai, which teetered on the brink of default in 2009, is cracking down on misconduct at its financial center to safeguard its position as a business hub.

Two Florida advisors have been charged with defrauding their clients, including many retirees, in an offshore fraud scam.

Why one firm scrapped its old minimum asset requirements and created a new client division.

In the wake of this summer's Supreme Court ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act and Prop 8 -- as well as ensuing federal clarifications related to tax rules, employee spousal benefits and more -- same-sex couples now say they need help with financial planning.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. reached a $13 billion deal with the U.S. Justice Department that ends probes into the bank’s sale of mortgage bonds, the largest amount paid by a financial firm in a settlement with the government.

Women have larger client accounts and price more consistently, according to a new study from Pricemetrix

The selling advisor tends to think their practice is worth a lot more than it may be. Here are five things to ask the selling advisor and the appraiser before you buy a practice.