Wealth management

Drawn by the independent business model, Douglas King is leaving a 25-year career at Merrill Lynch in Minnesota to become the Los Angeles-based president of Financial Network Investment Corporation, a Cetera Financial Group company.

Here’s an interactive slide show detailing 5 things you can do to effectively manage client expectations and risk tolerance, enhance relationships and protect your firm's value.

Associated Bank has hired Douglas Lee as senior vice president and trust manager on its investment advisory team in Green Bay, Wis.

Now, Prima Capital’s due diligence and other research services will reach RIAs and financial planners via the Envestnet wealth management platform.

“I am very excited about this transaction. In addition to increasing our assets under management, it gives us some new and interesting fund offerings, and access to a premier distribution system,” says Steven M. Graziano, president of Touchstone.

Wintrust Financial Corporation has added a new member to its wealth services team in a push to expand in the Chicago market and its suburbs.

Legacy expert attorneys Andy and Danielle Mayoras say that contrary to preliminary reports, British songstress Amy Winehouse did not have a will in place at the time of her death—an estate planning mistake that advisors and their clients can’t afford to make.

Milwaukee, Wisc.-based CliftonLarsonAllen Wealth Advisors has teamed up with Academy Asset Management, a Philadelphia, Pa.-based investment advisor to launch Innovator Management LLC, purveyor of the new Innovator Matrix income Fund.

Here’s an interactive slide show featuring the 5 worst-performing Dow stocks so far this year.

“All stockholders receive the special cash dividend, and many are financial advisors and management, so this is a bit of a bonus,” says Chip Roame, managing partner at Tiburon Strategic Partners.

By any measure, the first quarter of 2012 was a very good one for investors. Here’s an interactive slide show featuring the 5 best-performing Dow stocks so far this year.

Wealthy clients are more likely to be sued, but excess personal liability insurance doesn't have to cost a fortune.

A three-part plan that enables advisors to go beyond basic financial planning.

The chief executive officer of Foundation Source discusses the advantages of a knowledge of philanthropy.

Here’s an interactive slide show featuring the six firms that scored above the national average in J.D. Power and Associates’ 2012 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study.

Here’s an interactive slide show featuring the six firms that scored above the national average of 774 points in J.D. Power and Associates’ 2012 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study.

Not every present a taxable one, according to the IRS.

Raymond James managed to straddle both the RIA and employee channels, placing second in both.

You don’t have to act like Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross to close a sale. But you do have to know a little something about human nature and psychology. Here’s a preview of an upcoming story in our April issue called “The Art of the Close” by Rick Rummage.

What was supposed to be the day of its greatest celebration became the day of its greatest humiliation. Here's a blow-by-blow recap of how and why everything went so terribly awry and, perhaps, signs that the company designed for "making markets better" is righting itself.