Wealth management

The early U.S. epicenter of the virus hasn’t seen mass closures of practices, but financial advisors from the area shared tips to try to get ahead of the impact.

“It’s like shopping on Amazon for real estate,” says one investor. But clients pay a premium for the access and convenience.

Restoring fee-model disclosures to its website is just the first step in correcting the organization’s “monumental failure,” according to fiduciary watchdog Ron Rhoades.

There is quite a bit of data indicating planners timed the markets poorly during the financial crisis. Let's not make the same mistakes again.

The richer they are, the more options clients have to insulate themselves from the coronavirus and its effects.

The decision does not diminish the board's conviction that consumers have a right to know how they are paying for products and services, writes the former board chairwoman.

Roughly two-thirds of the $1.2 billion contributions to the firm in 2019 came from appreciated assets.

A watchful planner might have saved a matriarch’s IRA from being allegedly pillaged by her son.

Mutual funds and ETFs are often created with lopsided or unequal allocations toward certain sectors of the economy, experts warn.

The custodian is introducing a subscription fee and zero-commission model for advisors.

“The only reason why I could see them doing that is shame,” one critic says of the move; the board calls it an important shift in the conversation about fiduciary care.

Wealth management firms have a “massive opportunity” to use new methods of reaching clients and the wider industry, FiComm Partners CEO Megan Carpenter says in an episode of Financial Planning’s In|Vest Podcast.

Almost 50% associate negative emotions with the practice. Here’s how planners can help.

Both recruits had a long history with wirehouses before trading them in for the regional broker-dealer.

Managers who are can differentiate with solid ESG credentials stand to prosper, especially as a younger generation begins saving for investment.

The client, Moises Cosio, is a filmmaker and the scion of a Mexican banking and real estate fortune.

Finally, I was able to talk openly about how financial services can be more inclusive of women and people of color. But did I have to leave to do so?

RIAs already on the platform can stick with the old pricing model or transition to the new one.

This three-tiered model may help.