Also this week, Cetera closes on its purchase of Concourse Financial Group, and Raymond James appoints a head of AI.

Burnout, financial strain and boredom are the leading drivers pushing senior workers to stay in the workforce longer.

Wells Fargo joins Bank of America, Citi and Charles Schwab in stepping away from its DEI policies.

Banks' latest annual reports, filed in the early weeks of the second Trump administration, provide a window into how the industry is adjusting to a new political climate.

Financial advisors and other industry professionals will be integral in boosting those generations' nest eggs by double digits through a Secure 2.0 provision.

Citi CEO Fraser announces the end of the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives it had started a mere three years before.

In an annual report, Bank of America removed "aspirational" diversity goals and replaced the word "diversity" with "talent" and "opportunity," citing new laws and executive orders.

U.S. District Judge Susan Brnovich found Ameriprise failed to furnish evidence that data taken by a recently recruited advisory team was going to be used to solicit their clients to LPL.

Also this week, LPL pulls a big team from Raymond James, Merrill from Morgan Stanley and Dynasty from CIBC.

Affiliated Advisors aims to recruit, retain and advance wealth management professionals with resources aimed at three different career stages.

In a legal response, LPL contends it has been sued at least seven times in the past year after recruiting advisors from industry rival Ameriprise.

The RIA aggregators Prime Capital and Corient also made their marks with big acquisitions.

Critics including President Trump are ramping up the pressure on large corporations to drop their programs. But others doubted the firms' sincerity all along.

The next CEO of Raymond James talks about how private equity ownership has made for some difficult marriages in wealth management, while a Morgan Stanley exec says asset outflows were unusually high last year.

Cary Carbonaro provided a blueprint for wealth management firms and investors ahead of the looming transfer of tens of trillions of dollars in assets.

Mercer Global Advisors and EP Wealth also extend their reach into the Nashville, Tennessee area with RIA acquisitions.

The name of the firm signals how she aims for the firm to be something more than a financial advisory company to women who are entrepreneurs and professionals.

The can-do work ethic of the firm's northeast divisional president took him across the country multiple times — and to the top of the profession.

JPMorgan also builds out the ranks of its private advisory group with execs poached from Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and Ernst & Young.