Practice management

The professor of finance at Santa Clara University, Calif., discusses where investors are today and how financial advisors need to address clients' emotional outlook on the markets.

A run-down of the stories in this issue, identifying the top branch managers in the wealth management industry, and learning what it takes to get to the top.

This year's top branch managers found a way to succeed during the most challenging times.

You know you're supposed to provide great client service. Is anybody telling you how to do it?

For a variety of reasons, advisors sometimes need to cut ties with clients. Here's how to make a clean break.

Gerald Rixie, the former CFO of Calamos Family Partners, joined the Private Client Reserve as a wealth management consultant.

Here are a handful of tips and general trends for advisors to keep in mind this week.

The wealth management industry is poised to become more concentrated and consolidated, or is it?

Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Mary Jo White is pushing to adopt a rule allowing hedge funds to advertise in a move consumer advocates say could fail to protect unsophisticated investors, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Through a six-step process that focuses on quality over quantity, discover how to get the most from your practice.

To get referrals with real payoff, make sure your clients and professional peers understand your firm's offerings -- and needs.

Software makers Geezeo and Access Softek are teaming to offer money management tools that banks can deliver to customers via smartphones and other mobile devices.

Within a decade, only about 150 large, profitable wealth management firms will dominate wealth management, according to a new forecast co-authored by Mark Hurley, chairman and CEO of the Fiduciary Network.

IMCA’s annual conference kicks off in Seattle on Monday with lessons for financial advisors from behavioral finance professor Meir Statman.

Merrill Lynch’s ultra high net worth business, the Private Banking and Investment Group, has snapped up two Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management advisors in Houston, Texas.

Former Lazard Wealth Management executive Sharon Klein joined Wilmington Trust to build its growing practice in the New York metro area.

"Everything is bigger in Texas." That's certainly the case when the Raymond James and its 2013 national conference descended on Dallas, where thousands of advisors around the country gathered to learn best practices and swap ideas.

Americans are allocating a smaller share of their spending to investment-related fees since the recession, a sign they are still wary of returning to financial markets even as stocks trade near record highs.

UBS executive Robert Mulholland has a message for professionals in the financial services industry: We are the adults in the room.

Schwab’s CEO Walt Bettinger sent clients a letter apologizing for the inconvenience caused by the company’s website outage Tuesday.