Concurrent Financial Planning brings academic gravitas to its growth plans under the firm's founder Preston Cherry and his wife, Managing Partner Eiman Osseilan.

LPL Financial topped the list, but the next five firms in these rankings of the 10 that picked up the most brokers from rivals are wirehouses and employee brokerages.

The meaning of independence takes on many different forms for these 10 financial advisors, wealth management executives, entrepreneurs and other experts.

With brokerages, consolidation, lawsuits and more, independence ain't what it used to be. Advisors who want to break away must contend with ever-changing options and obstacles to define their own version of independence.

Firms' aggressive pursuit of repayment of recruiting loans is likely a reflection of how massive some recruiting deals have become in recent years.

The independent broker-dealer giant contends in court that a federal judge went too far in telling a pair of its advisors that they couldn't reach out to clients they had while at TD Bank.

The giant custodian, retail brokerage and asset management firm has completed the industry's largest ever conversion with TD Ameritrade. What's next after a key executive's departure?

Homeownership among Asian American and Pacific Islanders is at an all-time high, but they face unique obstacles that financial planners must take into account.

With RIAs increasingly identifying succession planning as a business imperative, here's how financial advisors and firms are investing in the future.

To remain successful in the workforce of the future, advisors will need to adapt and evolve to find new growth and meet clients' needs.

The mammoth coup far outpaces other recruiting deals of recent memory.

More than a third of financial advisors will retire in the next decade in a profession in which nearly 3 out of 4 rookies fail to make the grade, creating a headcount problem for the industry.

The federal banking regulator agrees that the former employees' claims against the failed regional bank don't belong in FINRA arbitration.

Financial advisors Jeff Breese and Brent Mekosh merged their practices as part of the move from the hybrid RIA's former brokerage firm.

The disturbing nature of the claims and puzzling sequence of events add a fraught layer to what was already going to be a challenging CEO handoff from the founder.

An M&A deal brings a fourth office location to the ambitious firm launched in 2019 by Jason Ray and Chelsea Ransom-Cooper.

Forty companies made the 2024 edition of American Banker's annual list of enviable workplace cultures in the financial technology space. Here is a look at some of what makes these firms employers of choice.

Citizens has been on a recruiting and acquisition tear in recent years. Tom Metzger, the recently appointed head of the bank's private wealth unit, says it's just the beginning.

The merger "will fundamentally transform the RIA ecosystem," tru CEO Craig Stuvland says.

Higher expenses from the record headcount of financial advisors and a continuous stream of recruits and acquisitions are investing in the firm's future earnings, though.