Wealth management

Despite a slowdown in advisor recruitment from the first half of the year, Stifel managed to achieve record revenue for the third quarter.

Dynasty Financial Partners' investment bank joins Diamond Consultants to help departing teams vet transition options, whether that's joining another wirehouse, selling to an RIA aggregator or starting their own business.

As Financial Planning's AI Readiness Survey showed, most advisors aren't concerned about their own jobs. But others aren't so sure.

Step away from the rote 30-second spiel. Instead, forge connections with advisory prospects based on trust, not tactics.

New AI tools are often added to existing tech without fanfare, meaning that advisors who don't want to use them are forced to scour for ways to turn them off.

The wirehouse leaves its basic paygrid untouched for the fifth year in a row while giving advisors extra incentives to tout banking products and work with existing clients' children and grandchildren.

The awards recognize early-career brokers that have created top production numbers at their wealth management firms.

A clear division is emerging between smaller independent RIAs and their larger billion-dollar competitors, as some firms aggressively pursue a "one-stop shop" model for their clientele.

As geopolitical and other uncertainty remains, gold is seen as a useful hedge. But experts warn gold's rise won't last forever.

Janney also adds teams from Morgan Stanley and UBS, while LPL Financial picks up advisors from Janney for its direct employee channel.

New research from the National Council on Aging found that wealth plays a major role in longevity, a factor financial advisors say can dramatically alter retirement plans.

Advisors cited better liquidity, lower expenses and higher tax efficiency as among the reasons they like ETFs, the market for which has topped $11 trillion.

The question ties into so many of the factors that distinguish large and small firms, various client niches and decisions about whether or not to hire staff.

Along with bringing in new households and assets, the Bank of America wealth management units are turning to loans, alternative assets and other offerings to do more with existing clients.

The largest wirehouse also reported a record quarter for wealth management revenues built on strong asset inflows in the third quarter.

Prepping clients for natural disasters and climate emergencies should start with coverage and end with estate planning.

Allowing artificial intelligence to make investment management decisions poses an organizational threat, according to the majority of advisors in Financial Planning's AI Readiness Survey.

Also remarkable: the size of the teams that are leaving and the types of firms benefiting from the defections, a new report from Diamond Consultants finds.

After a steep decline last quarter, Citi's wealth division rebounded in the third quarter with a record level of net new investment assets.

Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf also points to investments into the firm's independent channel as helping to retain advisors and curtail departures to other firms.