Practice management

The firm has promoted Vin Campagnoli to chief information officer as it looks to continue expanding its platforms.

Growth can mean a number of things: professional development, growing assets, increasing enterprise value of the business, raising revenue or expanding profits. Shirl Penney examines a few lessons learned from the Dynasty Network on what advisors are doing to raise revenues and widen margins.

Women are closing the gap in saving rates for retirement compared to their male counterparts, according to fourth quarter 2012 data for defined contribution plans administered by MassMutual.

A Wells Fargo broker has been ordered to pay $650,000 in restitution for allegedly misappropriating client funds.

More than eight in 10 Americans (84%) expect to see their dentist this year for regular cleanings while less than half (43%) plan to meet with their financial advisor to review their investment strategies.

Call it a generation-skipping succession plan. When 62-year old industry veteran John LaPann decided it was time to hand over the reins of Federal Street Advisors, observers may have expected his successor would emerge from the ranks of firm veterans now in their 50s, but instead the firm chose some younger leaders.

The Insured Retirement Institute announced Wednesday that the IRI Marketing Summit was canceled due to winter storm Saturn.

A recent Schwab survey of planning students at Texas Tech found that the lure of client relationship management and working in-person with clients remains high, with nearly half of students citing the latter as a priority.

All financial advisory referrals come from just 28% of your clients, according to a survey. But what type of clients are sending you new business?

Sen. Richard Shelby introduced two bills on Tuesday aimed at fixing technical errors in the Dodd-Frank reform law and requiring regulators to complete rigorous economic analysis when crafting new rules.

The industry trade group announced its support for the proposal in a comment letter on FINRA’s new disclosure rules.

Understanding why you do what you do really makes a difference.

Word to the wise plan sponsor when it comes to target-date funds: No, not any QDIA will do, and bigger companies aren't always better.

Many financial advisors and their firms fail to understand and comply with custodial responsibilities to clients, according to the SEC . As a result, the commission has issued a “risk alert” and “advisor bulletin” to remind and educate planners about the importance of complying with custody rule.

“FSI has long supported a uniform fiduciary standard that increases protection for investors without limiting access to financial advice and service for Main Street Americans,” Dale Brown, the institute’s president and chief executive said in a statement Monday.

Only 10% of Boomers have discussed the topic with their children and only 6% with their parents. Less than half (45%) have discussed it with their spouses and only 23% with their financial advisors.

Regulators levied a $750,000 fine on Ameriprise for alleged wire transfer fraud committed by one of its brokers in 2010.

Anne Copeland, an executive vice president of the bank’s Wealth Management Group since April 2012, will lead Regions’ efforts to provide banking, trust, and investment management services to affluent and high-net-worth individuals.

LPL is launching a new online tool that it says will let its advisors offer offer better visibility to plan sponsors and the millions of LPL clients who are invested in 401(k)s.

Working with sports stars can be prestigious, even glamorous -- and is often a highly sought after market niche for financial advisors and wealth managers, but professional athletes can also present advisors with a minefield of challenges