Wealth management

While it may be unnerving, a notice of an examination doesn’t necessarily mean defeat.

The firm charges a very low fee but then steers customers to — can you guess? — its own funds.

You cannot fake it. You cannot read a book about it. You need to dine at the franchises to best understand this niche market.

While tax reform has been a mixed bag for muni bonds, a few factors working in their favor include constrained supply this year, as well as historically low defaults.

The life planning innovator hopes to spark hundreds of conversations aimed at building an ideal civilization.

CEO Manny Roman expects the move will help the firm cash in when the next economic downturn comes.

Clients surprised me when I asked for their opinions about the planning tool. Plus, how to find out if you're an "innovator" or a "laggard."

Small company stocks stumbled in the very recent past but have outperformed over the long term.

You’ll probably find administrators blocking the backdoor Roth IRA strategy more than anyone else, says Kimberly Foss, planner, author and Financial Planning contributor. That’s when you’ll have to adopt the role of educator, she says.

Advisors see raising their rates as a difficult topic to broach, but one RIA coach has a variety of methods for approaching it.

Earnings reports this week showed the firms are increasingly rushing into a booming market for lending to wealthy clients. So far, it’s paying off.

The launch adds to the trend of banks attempting to tap into their base of retail checking account customers as a way to create instant scale in low-cost wealth management.

What's to stop financial planning from being shrunk entirely into a free app?

Sales of the fee-only products have expanded in a major way, but they have yet to win over advisors.

Firms who "do nothing" will be in a "precarious position," advisors are warned at a Fidelity conference.

Edward Lee Moody used the stolen proceeds to buy a home and travel to Las Vegas among other destinations.

The deal is Captrust's 31st purchase in the past 12 years.

Those with outflows cost clients more than twice as much.

Enforcement actions against IAs and reps at the state level soar in 2017, according to NASAA report.

There are hundreds of claiming strategies — using the wrong one can have major repercussions.