Practice management

The Bureau described the use of various senior designations as “extremely confusing for consumers,” noting that more than 50 different such designations are currently used to sell a wide variety of financial and insurance products.

"Once it is released it's going to be attacked. It's already being attacked, even though nobody really knows exactly what the rule will be," Ron Rhoades told reporters during a conference call on Thursday.

Outsourcing in wealth management has been gaining continued momentum according to a Celent study.

As advisors – and entrepreneurs – it’s hard to come across a marketing idea we don’t love. Because of this, we all have a tendency to lose the balance between strategic thinking and the little things that need to be done to ensure the big picture vision is properly executed. Ron Carson asks, how can advisors keep the scale balanced in their dynamic role?

Financial advisor candidates will need to pay more to take securities licensing exams starting June 1, the North American Securities Administrators Association announced.

The organic expansion plan sets Tiedemann apart in the wealth management space, where many firms recently have opted instead for an acquisition strategy, which brings an instant infusion of assets and revenues.

By handling referrals in a simply, systematic and disciplined way, advisors can promote meaningful growth at a limited cost, according to Matt Matrisian.

Mary Jo White, the first former prosecutor to serve as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has pledged to run a “bold and unrelenting” enforcement program at the agency charged with regulating Wall Street.

Martim de Arantes Oliveira will be responsible for driving the growth of Ascent’s new office, which will open this summer.

Few advisors are encouraging their clients to take action now and prepare for the challenges their investments will face in a rising interest-rate environment., according to blogger Ken Haman. How could this cost you business in the long-run?

While some of the asset increase resulted from appreciation since the 2008 financial crisis, other factors contributed to this growth.

Former MF Global Inc. broker Evan Brent Dooley was sentenced to five years in prison for making unlawful unauthorized trades that caused the now-defunct futures firm to lose more than $141 million in 2008.

Securities and Exchange Commission commissioners and panelists at a roundtable Tuesday wrestled with how to improve the transparency of municipal bond trading and prices, particularly for retail investors.

In the financial services industry the only thing that an advisor can guarantee to clients is that there will always be change. However, how individuals respond to change may vary. It is the way in which you choose to respond that makes a difference.

With a bullish outlook for careers in financial planning, TD Ameritrade Institutional has created a scholarship fund aimed at injecting fresh blood into the industry.

An enforcement action from the Securities & Exchange Commission is a timely reminder to advisors to disclose any financial benefits their firm may receive from the broker-dealer it recommends to clients.

New rules to reduce risk in money-market mutual funds will be proposed in the next two months by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which won’t be slowed by a leadership change, a commissioner said.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined a firm $37,500 for trade and books and records violations, and a broker $5,000, giving him a four-month suspension, for telling a customer he redeemed bonds rather than sold them without the customer's permission.

Companies that submitted initial resolution plans last year to the Fed and FDIC under Dodd-Frank must detail in their second drafts how they would address impediments to a wind-down and follow the series of steps required for bankruptcy.

As the overall financial advisory business picks up, “more than eight in 10 advisors want to spend more time attracting new clients,” Pershing discovered, “and nearly as many believe that they could grow faster if they had better time management tools or processes.”