Practice management

A run-down of the stories in this issue, including the list of the top 40 advisors under the age of 40, planning for the fiscal cliff, a look at exchange-traded funds, and planning for the new year.

In On Wall Street's sixth annual ranking, the young hotshots of The Street talk clients and strategy. Here's how this year's top 40 advisors under 40 conquered a tough market.

Our legal expert explains what your assistant can and cannot do with trade processing.

With four different generations in the workplace, communication is an essential skill for working with high-net-worth families.

Many woman advisory firms are missing a big opportunity.

TD Ameritrade Institutional's Aggressive Recruiting

Tempted to leave this asset class out of a portfolio? Don't be swayed.

Advisors have been racing to finish what some say is an unprecedented transfer of wealth.

When a client is a performer, athlete or anyone else with a variable income, a planner needs a special strategy.

Three out of four global investors expect President Barack Obama and congressional leaders to reach a short-term agreement to avert more than $600 billion in spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to begin on Jan. 1.

President Obama’s top economic adviser challenged Republican congressional leaders to put an offer on the table in fiscal-cliff talks and defended Obama’s debt-reduction proposals as concrete and detailed.

The recent talk of a fiscal cliff compromise from Republicans and Democrats appear to have dissolved as leaders of both sides leveled pointed criticism at the other for failing to offer a truly balanced plan for taxes and spending cuts. So what's next?

The SEC has accused a Chicago advisor and his firm of defrauding clients and others by promising them a private equity fund the firm managed would “beat the market."

Investors looking out for the fabled fiscal cliff should be careful not to tumble down the “earnings cliff,” if corporate profits plunge.

Will FINRA’s announcement that it will consider new disclosure guidelines for recruitment incentives be a boon or bane?

Strong networking is critical if advisors want to attract defined contribution plans, according to a white paper from Franklin Templeton.

Married millionaire women are more risk averse, more interested in holistic financial planning and they may be better candidates for financial advice than their male counterparts according to research released by Fidelity on Thursday.

With women on pace to take control of more wealth in the coming years, female clients represent a major opportunity for financial advisors who make a concerted effort to engage with them. This could be bad news for advisors, both male and female, who don’t understand how to communicate with women clients. This was the theme at Fidelity Investments’ Growth Strategies Forum: Engaging Women Clients, conference on Wednesday.

The co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s 2010 fiscal commission said it’s unlikely the president and Congress will reach a deal by the end of this year to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.

President Obama plans a private lunch tomorrow with his election opponent Mitt Romney, amid a face-off with congressional Republicans over taxes and spending and how to cut the deficit.