Practice management

The 12 largest bank broker dealers boosted their revenue by 8% to more than $1.5 billion in 2012, marking the fourth consecutive annual increase.

Happiness is a choice, according to Shawn Achor, author of "The Happiness Advantage", and for advisors, it may be a key to increased productivity and client satisfaction.

Advisors who don't prepare their firms for demographic changes, regulatory uncertainty, and succession planning are setting themselves, and their firms, up for failuae.

Most planners do a lot more than select investments. So how do you measure the value of providing financial planning?

When you launch your own RIA everything matters. Even the color pink.

Globally, women are more economically powerful than ever before. Kathleen Kingsbury write that, despite this financial influence, many women still struggle to express their personal power in the workplace.

To generate more high-level referrals, Bill Cates suggests advisors try hosting a simple, targeted educational seminar populated by clients and their friends.

Janney continues to emphasize its focus on the Southeast with the addition of two former Stephens advisors in Columbia, S.C.

A Detroit investment adviser will pay $3.1 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims that he stole money from a police pension fund to finance his purchase of two California strip malls.

Women advisors descended on Dallas for the recent Women Advisors Forum. The day of educational sessions, discussion and networking opportunities featured an array of topics from how to use complex assets for charitable giving to succession planning and what it’s like to start your own business after starting out at a wirehouse.

“Nothing I did in the last five years had anything to do with selling on a commission basis,” he told Financial Planning.

Hilliard Lyons continues growth in North Carolina with the addition of two former UBS advisors.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has improved how it justifies new regulations after at least five recent court defeats faulted its use of economic analysis, according to an audit by the agency’s inspector general.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has paid $580,000 to settle claims by a former internal watchdog that he was fired in an effort to quash his investigations.

From not giving up your audit too soon to wise words from Pershing's Mark Tibergien on creating a human capital strategy, here are some of the smartest things we learned at this year's INSITE conference.

Like star athletes, advisors can experience “imposter fear” – worrying that their success is owed to luck and somehow they’ve fooled others into believing they are skilled professionals. Jack Singer, an advisor coach and sports psychologist, offers insights on how advisors can overcome this fear.

SpringReef Partners, a consulting firm specializing in evaluating wealth mangers for high and ultrahigh net-worth clients, has been acquired by Aronson, an accounting and consulting firm based in Rockville, Md.

Writing and send a press release sounds like a simple way to hang your shingle as a new RIA, but Dave Grant said the process is more involved than he thought.

A slew of recent regulatory shifts is keeping examiners busy -- and advisors must know how to react when they get a call from FINRA or the SEC.

Regulators have formed a working group to enhance coordination between federal and state banking agencies on cybersecurity.