Wealth management

Making the right hire can ease workloads and free up time to spend catering to clients' needs.

Bill Hamm’s Independent Financial Partners has grown more than fivefold in 10 years with the No. 1 IBD.

Advisors should conduct a comprehensive suitability analysis before initiating 1035 exchanges.

Research firm Spectrem Group tracked new highs in 2017 across the mass affluent, millionaire and UHNW segments.

The WiseBanyan platform currently has $153 million in assets under management and 32,000 clients.

Many advisors feel like they don't have a compelling personal story, but they probably do — they just have to discover it.

Chances are, you’ve never used it — or even noticed it.

Audit rates are dropping, but there are still triggers that taxpayers can avoid to further reduce their risk.

Firms seeking to recruit high-level talent will have to be creative.

The firm was defined by a culture of “no, no, no,” a top headhunter says as part of On Wall Street’s annual recruiters roundtable.

BMO Wealth Management aims to modernize its investment service and give planners better equipment. Others offering automated advice solutions include UBS, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan.

The $263 million practice’s new IBD reported record recruiting for 2017, helped in part by the movement of advisors following LPL’s massive acquisition.

Direct ownership has dropped by $103 billion year over year — and by more than $300 billion since 2010.

Debt is back on the rise, this time led by government.

When your client is a foreign national, it pays to find out if the same regulations apply.

Planners have a natural incentive to be narrow-minded when it comes to investment opportunities. Sometimes it’s better to look for reasons to selectively say yes.

More assets — and teams — are in motion than ever. What's behind the movement?

While American women earn only 82 cents for every dollar men earn, the wage gap is far greater for female planners.

“Chase promised so many things and they didn’t keep those promises,” the juror said of the firm.

A recent report about bad incentives for brokers "did not accurately reflect how we do business and serve our clients," said Jon Weiss, head of wealth and investment management.