Wealth management

Surprise riches can help clients as much as hurt them. 

A new hybrid robo from Schwab touches off debate about the level of advice delivered by phone and changes in the profession brought by digitization.

Advisers using the custodian's institutional robo platform say they have found ways to make it benefit their practice and helped them rethink the services they offer.

With cybercrime an increasing threat to small financial firms, it’s important to have a comprehensive defensive program in place.

Interested in buying or selling a firm? David DeVoe's essential guide for advisers.

Who is poised to buy next year?

Both recruits have more than two decades of experience.

The biggest advisers to go it alone this year managed over $13 billion in client assets.

Margins are down and expenses are up, Fidelity's new benchmarking study finds. Pricing models need to be re-visited.

Dan Moisand's firm joins the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard's new listing. Moisand is a former CFP Board official and ex-president of the FPA.

The new hires opened two offices for the regional BD.

The fast-growing firm has recruited 25 advisers this year, and is affiliated with Raymond James.

The wirehouse will leave its core pay grid untouched for 2017.

Collectively, this year’s mega movers managed more than $23 billion in client assets.

CEO Rob Francais wants advisers to envision $1 trillion in AUM.

Four important things to bear in mind if you are considering joining a network of independent RIAs.

Given how dysfunctional many families are during a crisis, a lack of coordination of agents can sow even more financial confusion, and even conflict.

From regulators to technology providers to CEOs, these are the players who will remake wealth management in 2017.

Strategies and data to remember from fellow advisers and industry analysts.

Ex-RIA Richard G. Cody gave false reports to retirees for more than a decade, the SEC says. Many lost most of their life savings.