Professional development

When bad advice scuttled his parents' retirement, Aaron Cirksena embarked on a mission to provide sound financial planning to as many people as possible.

With RIAs increasingly identifying succession planning as a business imperative, here's how financial advisors and firms are investing in the future.

More advisor contact can boost client trust and satisfaction. That's key in a landscape where 75% of clients considered switching, or switched, advisors in 2023, a YCharts survey shows.

The ban comes amid heightened regulatory scrutiny of firms' messages on services like WhatsApp and posts on social media sites.

Women see and understand the research underscoring the benefits of diversity in leadership and want to align their investment dollars with this approach.

To remain successful in the workforce of the future, advisors will need to adapt and evolve to find new growth and meet clients' needs.

More than a third of financial advisors will retire in the next decade in a profession in which nearly 3 out of 4 rookies fail to make the grade, creating a headcount problem for the industry.

Advisors and other leaders in the profession have a unique window into what "wealth" really means. Here's how they defined it.

Innovative leaders Dani Fava and Brooke Juniper give a rare look into their recent career pivots and lessons learned when climbing the C-suite ladder.

The disturbing nature of the claims and puzzling sequence of events add a fraught layer to what was already going to be a challenging CEO handoff from the founder.

An M&A deal brings a fourth office location to the ambitious firm launched in 2019 by Jason Ray and Chelsea Ransom-Cooper.

Nearly one out of three advisors at independent broker-dealers has thought about going solo in the past year, a new survey finds.

The general categories represent a starting point for RIAs that may be trying to figure out how they fit into a buyer's long-term plans, a Datos Insights study says.

New financial planning questions on the accounting exam could attract more young people and encourage current practitioners to explore the burgeoning ties between the fields.

Many advisors will have to produce more this year to make the same take-home pay as last year, Financial Planning's annual analysis finds, with low producers under pressure to move up the revenue ladder or move on.

An experiment tested different generative AI models against each other on multiple choice questions from CPA Exam test prep material, and found they have their own strengths and weaknesses.

As ESG investments face political backlash, here's how financial advisors are talking to clients about impact investing.

After a decade-long effort by holders of the personal financial specialist credential, aspiring candidates can be tested on investments, retirement plans and other areas.

Political bias can create negative chain reactions in portfolios. Here's how to keep investors focused on long-term goals.

Some planners and firms are taking action to address impending retirements. Here's why opening more pathways into the field matters to every company in wealth management.