Practice management

Expect powerful regional RIAs to emerge from the current round of financial advisory deal-making.

Before anyone represents your firm online, they need to understand why a blog is important to your organization, what the goals are that you wish to achieve, and the do’s and don’ts for contributing. Here are the three tips to make sure your bloggers succeed.

A recent study highlights the industry's dire need for new advisors, and aims to help firms understand Gen Y's huge potential. Here are the key takeaways.

A recent study highlights the industry's dire need for new advisors, and aims to help firms understand Gen Y's huge potential. Here are the key takeaways.

More than three in five (62%) credit union members trust their credit unions, yet only 18% trust the advisor there. The positive view: this is an “incredible opportunity” to improve.

Corporate-bond brokers may face a squeeze on profits as regulators start publishing prices for almost $1 trillion of privately sold debt, if the past is any guide.

SEC Chair Mary Jo White met with leaders of the equities and options exchanges, FINRA the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation and the Options Clearing Corporation following the August 22 interruption in the trading of NASDAQ-listed securities.

Advisors may say they're comfortable developing retirement income strategies -- but none seem to agree on the right way to create an income stream.

Patience is prudent when it comes to Social Security.

Significantly altered results now appear when users search for fee-only advisors.

While the coming fiscal debate looms in the background -- along with probable accompanying market volatility -- there are a number of other possible legislative and regulatory items that also affect the insurance and advisory industry.

Nearly one in five working-age Americans (18%) believe they will never be able to retire, more than the 12% who said so globally.

If traditional marketing is about going out and finding potential clients, inbound marketing is about creating ways for potential clients to find you.

The CFP Board extended a broad amnesty to hundreds of advisors who had been breaking its rules by calling themselves fee-only on the board’s website. The surprise move prompted calls for the board to reconsider and possibly rescind recent sanctions of other CFP holders for similar transgressions.

A complaint filed by the SEC accuses a former Merrill Lynch advisor and his client of making insider trades and hiding profits in offshore accounts.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Barclays Plc, Credit Suisse Group AG and 10 other international lenders were sued by a U.S. credit union regulator alleging they illegally manipulated benchmark Libor interest rates.

Two veteran founders of well-heeled financial planning firms—Richard “Richie” Lee of Lee Financial in Dallas, Texas and Michael Leonetti of Leonetti & Associates in Buffalo Grove, Ill.—readily confess that luck as much as deliberate strategy has contributed to their firms’ success.

Planners have readily adapted to the changing needs of their clients since the recession. Yet they need to engage clients in even more personal, meaningful conversations.

The CFP Board’s strategy of punishing some certificate holders over compensation disclosure issues in what critics charge is an arbitrary manner threatens the future of the CFP designation, according to one of the early leaders of the board who also chaired its disciplinary commission.

One of the biggest value adds advisors can provide is being able to pick up on warning signs that a client's family business may be in trouble. Here are six to look out for.