Wealth management

Two factors are prompting an upsurge in career changes.

The largest turn-key asset manager added five new features that leverage the firm’s vast stores of data.

Advisors have a dizzying number of ways to answer. Over a five-year period. Over 30 years. Compared to a certain sample portfolio. Which should you choose?

Here are the top five areas of design to consider when developing a new brand and core message.

Respondents say they’re concerned about volatility, regulatory uncertainty and a lack of fundamentals to use in determining the right price for bitcoin.

The fast-growing Chicago firm now nearly $4 billion in AUM.

In a bid to further enhance its capabilities for advisors, the firm is also slashing ETF transaction fees on select funds later this year.

Evolution Financial Advisors has grown to 86 advisors with $2.6 billion in client assets under Securities America.

The No. 1 IBD also nominated a new board member and tapped key executives for advisor support and government relations.

Without advisor buy-in, scale can't be achieved, the tech executive says.

One custodian is testing the technology in its marketing efforts and anticipates its advisors may — eventually — decide to follow.

As director of AllianceBernstein’s emerging markets debt strategies, Shamaila Khan oversees the management of the platform’s portfolios.

As chief research strategist and portfolio manager at AlphaSimplex, Kathryn Kaminski is involved in the oversight of $6 billion in investment products.

With an eye on a future sale, the $48B RIA wants to build enterprise value.

Amid all available career paths, “I think [asset management] just found me," said Julie Genjac, managing director of strategic markets at Hartford Funds.

Michael Arougheti says the move his firm took last year has already boosted stock liquidity and expects it will lure more investors to alternatives.

A 67-year-old wife collecting spousal benefits will be better off waiting until 70 before shifting to her own retirement benefit if she remains healthy, according to this Q&A article.

Advisors share their tips to avoid the frenzy over Slack, Uber and the next big thing.

Independent Financial Partners aspires to be a “very, very small agent for change.”

It's vital that planners recognize how women's planning needs are different from men's — while being careful not to lump them into a singular group.