Practice management

Here's a smart way to add long-lasting value to your client relationships.

New CEO Ted Pick sees little need to change the "wealth management machine" his predecessor helped bring to "escape velocity."

Tax deductions for meals come with a 50% limit in most cases. Here's a mini guide to noshing breaks for financial advisors, tax professionals and their clients.

The American Securities Association accuses the industry regulator of violating federal sunshine law for rebuffing its requests for insight into more than $3 billion in recent settlements with Wall Street giants.

An industry lawyer says the firm's liability in a complex insurance-related scam will hinge on what it "should have known" or "must have known."

CFAs' knowledge of investments is on another level — which is why the designation is so hard to get. Here's why it can be worth it.

High-earning participants in the expanding universe of retirement plans offer a wellspring of potential clients for firms and advisors.

Concurrent Financial Planning brings academic gravitas to its growth plans under the firm's founder Preston Cherry and his wife, Managing Partner Eiman Osseilan.

The St. Louis-based brokerage is also encouraging representatives to become Certified Financial Planners as it experiments with fee-based fiduciary business models.

LPL Financial topped the list, but the next five firms in these rankings of the 10 that picked up the most brokers from rivals are wirehouses and employee brokerages.

Wealthtech platform Envestnet has agreed to offer its in-house unified managed account tools to BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton and State Street to boost more customized direct indexing for advisors.

As technology advances, so does the cost and time it takes to deploy new tools. Some firms are choosing to build in-house, while others are partnering with vendors and more specialized tech providers.

The meaning of independence takes on many different forms for these 10 financial advisors, wealth management executives, entrepreneurs and other experts.

With brokerages, consolidation, lawsuits and more, independence ain't what it used to be. Advisors who want to break away must contend with ever-changing options and obstacles to define their own version of independence.

Simple, doable steps performed by in-house staff can begin a financial services firm's data security odyssey.

For more than half of U.S. households, retirement isn't a finish line. It's just a different phase of the marathon.

The Section 121 exclusion and the step-up in basis are well known to financial advisors and tax professionals, but their clients will need to plan carefully to net the biggest potential savings.

The likely more than $1 million award is the latest result from cases arguing that firms' pay policies run afoul of federal retirement law.

Brokerages have until June 26 to decide if they want to take part in a pilot program allowing them to continue inspecting their branch office remotely; plus, the rundown on residential supervisory locations

Firms like Morningstar and Morgan Stanley that recently rebooted their chatbots with AI models are finding it's transforming how clients and advisors engage chatbots. Is the industry missing an opportunity for growth with their chatbots?