Wealth management

WealthSource Partners joins regional broker-deal’s Investment Advisors Division.

There’s one goof every adviser should take extra precautions to avoid: being careless about those IRA beneficiary forms.

The final installment of our annual listing, organized alphabetically.

Beyond risk questionnaires: How clients’ life stages should play a role in portfolio decisions.

Beyond risk questionnaires: How clients’ life stages should play a role in portfolio decisions.

Their low or no upfront costs can bite down hard on an adviser’s future profits.

Here’s a self-assessment exercise to help you determine where you are on the path to professionalism.

A former Morgan Stanley adviser and medalist in swimming offers tips for keeping long-term objectives on course.

No adviser alone can be an expert for all clients' needs. Here’s how to build a network of fellow professionals, influencers and experts.

The recruit switched wirehouses again after 7 years.

Investors have once again taken a liking to taxable bond funds — a marked difference from last year. Advisers may find that clients are taking notice, too.

Retired air traffic controller and former FPA president Richard Salmen was named to a one-year term in 2018, succeeding Blaine Aiken.

The next installment of our annual listing, organized alphabetically.

Recent research shows how advisers work and how they like to communicate.

Digital wealth management firms see the way to reach millennial clients is through student debt.

Diversification is a key word in the financial lexicon. But it is neither well-defined nor desirable in and of itself. What investors really need is efficiency.

Median operating profit declined more than 6 percentage points in 2015.

In the near future, an adviser's role will partly be providing help desk support to clients, says Uday Singh, a partner with A.T. Kearney, at SourceMedia's In|Vest conference.

Clients expect their emails and texts to be responded to nearly instantly, says Earl Jefferson, founder of Texas-based advisory 7th Harvest Investments.

Four elite advisers who left the independent channel to launch their own RIA deliver blow to Wells Fargo's target of a best-ever recruiting year.