Wealth management

A founder of Harbor Lights Financial Group said he and his partners scouted possible private equity buyers and decided LPL was the best option for preserving their firm's legacy.

Activist shareholders targeted 449 companies with mostly large market capitalizations.

The wealth management giant questions if there has ever been so large a civil sanction handed down in response to "negligent mistakes" made in an attempt to comply with "unwritten rules."

Mutual funds are losing assets, while ETFs are gaining them. Here's a look at how a pioneering firm has adjusted to a difficult environment in recent years.

While big firms keep getting hit with lawsuits alleging unfair cash sweep policies, MaxMyInterest is generating returns from cash through the competitive marketplace.

Researchers wonder if similar regulatory attention could eventually hit the bottom lines of independent broker-dealers and RIAs.

These recoveries don't guarantee a bottom has been reached.

Financial planners have had to field plenty of questions about why they weren't more aggressively chasing returns. With the market correction, they now have a chance to show the benefits of a diversified strategy.

Like cable companies, Fidelity Investments has joined the bundled pricing trend, targeting smaller firms with lower-cost options to access their multiservice platforms.

The planning strategies for large individual equity holdings pose tax, investment and behavioral questions for financial advisors and their customers.

The firms acknowledge on social media that they are responding to technical difficulties.

It's important for advisors to develop a relationship with both spouses from the outset, long before an unexpected death.

The hires add credibility to the wirehouse's renewed commitment to recruiting.

From a logo inspired by a clothing decoration to a name inspired by the cosmos, learn why these eight financial services revamped their brands.

Dubbed as the "digital admin for private investments," Arch has grown rapidly this year, adding AI tools that easily summarize documents for advisors, but hasn't lost the human touch.

Financial advisors who specialize in estate planning say regular clients can learn from these messy celebrity situations.

Firms' practice of offering low returns on clients' uninvested cash is becoming the latest hot legal target.

Wells Fargo joins Morgan Stanley, Merrill and Ameriprise in facing questions over its handling of clients' uninvested cash.

Meager security budgets, flammable family dynamics and set-in-their-ways employees can put assets, and sometimes the safety of family members themselves, at risk.

Despite the notion that an ESG backlash is pushing clients away, private equity products aiming to solve challenging problems through investments are still on the rise.