Wealth management

One firm made three small changes that could appeal to brokers, while the other company’s overhaul will make it more closely resemble its competitors’ setups.

Vendors like Orion are giving independent advisors access to cash deposit accounts and securities-backed loans in an effort to provide all-encompassing services.

The acquisition could help Addepar move downstream and better serve RIAs.

Seven former Wells Fargo Private Bank planners left to join a firm seeking to expand where they say large banks and brokerages have pulled back.

A quartet of advisors with $400 million in assets chose the independent firm out of many suitors.

Money managers are hiking bets on the great inflation trade of 2021, as the biggest risk to price stability in more than a decade rocks corporate boardrooms and Wall Street trading floors.

At the IMPACT 2021 conference, CEO Walt Bettinger and head of advisor services Bernie Clark shared plans to grow the firm’s market share of independent advisors.

The giant custodian unveiled a new turnkey asset management and technology platform it says will boost its market share among RIAs and other advisory firms.

The brokerage now manages $7.61 trillion across its retail and RIA custody businesses.

CEO David Solomon sees opportunity in the industry for further acquisitions and organic growth after the firm’s significant pivot in the last two years.

Young entrepreneurs and soon-to-be heirs are expecting more social impact from their investments. Private banks are evolving in response — often by matching clients with like-minded advisors who are closer in age, and by hiring more women and people of color.

The bank’s wealth management unit has “underinvested” in its online and independent divisions, CEO Charlie Scharf said.

There’s no telling where the vast fortunes hide on tree-softened Phillips Avenue here in Sioux Falls.

The wealth management business is undergoing considerable transformation. The pandemic has created a new breed of investors, with distinct expectations and tastes formed by new technology and having lived through the financial crisis.

James Gorman says the wealth manager is seeing much better retention and recruiting due to its “multiple channels of growth” after several acquisitions.

Financial advisors have a variety of objectives in working with their investment-planning clients. But when all is said and done, clients are usually mainly interested in a successful road map to growing and protecting their wealth to and through retirement.

Expecting everything to work seamlessly from day one can lead to a rude shock.

FP’s annual list recognizes the accomplishments of an elite cohort of young wirehouse and regional advisors.

Good luck getting in to see an estate planner if you don’t already have one. Cross your fingers if you do.

"Hopefully one day the industry changes and no one is surprised to see me at a top producer event due to my race or gender, or both," writes advisor Sandra Cho.