Wealth management

As it turns out, larger and smaller RIA firms face similar compliance challenges.

As firms battle each other to lure advisors, HD Vest focuses on a different talent pool: tax professionals who expand into financial planning.

To build out its planning business, one firm focuses on advisor prospects with files full of tax returns

As service models shift, dually registered advisors have been making big competitive gains. Now the SEC has them in its regulatory sights.

Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network has picked up advisors with more than $424 million in assets under management.

Your team shouldn't suffer abuse. Here's how to protect your staff and know when to bid a bad client adieu.

Structure relationships that factor in a variety of possible outcomes, a case study counsels.

You don't need to be able to do everything - but you should know whom to call when your clients need extra help.

After publishing our third annual RIA Leaders list, Financial Planning dove into the numbers to identify which of the top 100 actually have the wealthiest clientele.

Financial advisors may not be well-versed in survival skills, but a partnership with a trusted local security firm or specialist can go a long way to setting clients' minds at ease.

As modern life increasingly moves online, wealthy clients' assets face a range of cyber threats and advisors are in a unique position to help protect them.

Financial advisors may not be well-versed in survival skills, but a partnership with a trusted local security firm or specialist can go a long way to setting clients' minds at ease.

As modern life increasingly moves online, wealthy clients' assets face a range of cyber threats and advisors are in a unique position to help protect them.

The wealth management needs of highly successful technology entrepreneurs and innovators are different from other high-net-worth clients. Some are counterintuitive. Here's what advisors need to know.

Here we take a fresh look at our Top 50 and Next 50 Bank Advisors and list the top 25 based solely on percentage increase in production on a year-over-year basis.

The wealth management needs of highly successful technology entrepreneurs and innovators are different from other high-net-worth clients. Some are counterintuitive. Here's what advisors need to know.

Revenue rises 15% but product sales jump even higher, as a shift in compensation model holds back short-term revenue, the company says.

With tactical managers for nearly everything, the hardest part is evaluating these offerings for clients because they all sound great in theory. Here are some ideas on how to approach the evaluation process.

With an estimated $2 trillion "in motion" due to divorce or widowhood among American women, a thorough understanding of such major transitional moments may help financial advisors protect and even expand their practices.

Hundreds of bankers gathered in Honolulu earlier this month for the Independent Community Bankers of America conference, trying to reconcile their sense that the economy is back on track with their concerns about costly regulations and unfair competition. The following is an overview of the conflicting messages they shared and heard.