Wealth management

Age Wave President and CEO Ken Dychtwald discusses what that new retirement reality may look like.

Charitable lead annuity trusts have become even more attractive because of a recent U.S. Tax Court ruling.

Karla D'Alleva Valas, a managing director of the Complex Asset Group for Fidelity Charitable, says she cringes during her church's services when congregants drop envelopes of what she assumes is cash into the donations basket. Why? Cash is expensive, she told advisors at the Women Advisors Forum in Dallas on Thursday.

It took four years of dreaming, and nine months of late nights and hard planning, but now it’s real. Dave Grant is running his own RIA and he's taking us along for the journey.

Here’s a sampling of bank reps who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

Here’s a sampling of bank reps who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

Financial Planning unveils its annual list of the largest independent broker-dealers in June. As a sneak peek, here's a list of the 10 top IBDs ranked by revenue growth - also including their overall industry position.

U.S. Wealth Management, an independent network of wealth managers, has added two financial advisory practices to its platform, expanding its total recruited advisory and brokerage client assets.

We are proud to present a new look at our top program managers, reshuffled and ranked by number of full-time advisors the managers oversee.

Recruiting and hiring experienced, client-facing advisors with ultra high-net-worth experience is extremely difficult right now, with demand high and supply low.

Some of financial advisors' biggest preconceptions about switching to the RIA space -- from worries about insufficient AUM to fears about lower earnings and complex technology requirements -- were highlighted in a new report from TD Ameritrade. But the biggest myth, say advisors, is one that didn't even make the list.

Building your own business, even with a team of experts behind you, requires making tough decisions regarding resources, clients and employees. But most of all it requires leadership. Dynasty's CEO Shirl Penney offers a few lessons his firm has learned as it continue to build a business.

After LPL Financial agrees to pay FINRA case, compliance expert says there’s ‘no legitimate excuse’ for email missteps.

Here’s a sampling of bank reps who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

Nearly 200 financial advisors gathered at the Metropolitan Club in New York City with an aim to level the playing field within the industry.

You can do your clients a great service by sharing this story and reminding them that gifts of valuable personal property need to be well-documented with good estate planning, so that their loved ones don’t have to fight in court over whether a valid gift was made or not.

Independent advisors should be preparing themselves more aggressively for sale and consolidation, a new study says.

“This is not an easy business,” Carson told an audience on Thursday of over 500 advisors at the 24th Peak Excell Meeting. “It is a rewarding but difficult business … and we have to constantly reinvest and reinvent.”

In five years, Stratos Wealth Partners has grown from a glimmer of an idea to a firm with 130 advisors nationally and over $6 billion in assets under management. The secret to its success: a hybrid RIA model.

The platform, eSavant Advisor, which was introduced Monday, caters to clients with at least $50,000 in investable assets.