Wealth management

While it was driven by the big firms’ desire to avoid litigation costs, there was a catalyst, without which I believe there would have been no pact.

The group is the second team to join the Tucson branch in two weeks.

AI, HSAs, commissions and cybersecurity are top of mind for advisors attending at the firm’s annual Impact conference. The CEO makes his predictions.

The standard process for launching exchange traded funds is flawed, argues Allan Roth. He proposes a better way.

“Your risk of being audited goes up,” says RIA powerhouse Ron Carson.

Like lagging retail giants, wealth management firms risk ruin by failing to recognize changing customer expectations or by squandering the opportunity to evolve their business model.

Here's a chance for young advisors to join the ranking of elite talent.

The robo advisor adds a longstanding tax strategy to its offerings.

Employees aged 50 and above would no longer be able to make catch-up contributions on a pretax basis to their retirement plans under the Senate version of the GOP tax proposal.

Chairman Jay Clayton and top SEC brass are putting advisors on notice. The regulator is drilling down on investor protections, while warning firms on cybersecurity and AML compliance.

At least 270 advisors with $11.1 billion in client assets have left NPH firms since the acquisition.

The duo is part of an ongoing exodus of wirehouse advisors to smaller regional firms and independent brokerages

The breach follows other developments that have made offshore planning methods less attractive.

AdvicePay from Alan Moore and Michael Kitces is aimed at streamlining payments to advisors.

If an acquisitive advisory firm doesn’t perform due diligence on the seller’s fee structure, headaches are guaranteed, Michael Kitces writes.

High-risk, highly concentrated funds may not be for everyone, but they can fill a niche.

Even those who don’t work for Morgan Stanley could find themselves in a Catch-22.

Following in the footsteps of Chase, Wells Fargo and others, Fidelity is launching an application programming interface to let third-party apps access customer data — as long as the customers grant permission.

The California city has been replaced by Los Angeles.