At Future Proof 2022, the award-winning CFP shared her tips for aspiring wealth management professionals and her thoughts on breaking into the field.

The recruiting and M&A transactions bring another record year to the finish line ahead of an expected slowdown in 2023.

With teams managing some $9 trillion in client assets expecting to retire over the next 10 years, the results of Cerulli's survey carry massive implications.

A report from the bank's asset management division shows that American women are financially ill-equipped for retirement and suggested how employers can help.

The wealth management industry continues efforts to confront long- standing diversity issues. But those putting in the work know there is a long way to go.

The Schwab Benchmarking Study has some concrete advice for advisory firms that need to hire tens of thousands of employees over the next five years.

Advisor Group surpassed LPL at the top of the list, but consolidation, complexity and change remained the key themes in a highly competitive channel in 2022.

The two Black financial advisors dropped their case, but constant litigation in the industry spotlights questions over firms' pledges to change.

Advisor Group, Ameriprise, Cetera, Commonwealth, LPL and Raymond James are getting bigger and streamlining a crowded field of business as they go.

After helping to build up the largest IBD over more than a dozen years each with the firm, they've landed in recruiting and financial advisor support roles.

The incoming recruits from midsize rival LaSalle St. come as the top IBD sets headcount records and acquires the $40-billion asset Financial Resources Group.

The bank is moving away from direct wealth management services in order to tap into an unmet need for many independent financial advisors, its CEO said.

Bank of America is slowing hiring as fewer employees leave in an attempt to manage the company's headcount ahead of a possible U.S. recession, Chief Executive Brian Moynihan said.

JPMorgan Chase is planning to increase headcount in its Latin American private-banking unit by about 25% next year as the firm looks to attract more clients with $5 million to $25 million to invest at the bank.

The joint project with one of the largest advisory practices in the firm's tax-focused brokerage displays how wealth management firms are backing their OSJs.

The deal follows at least 14 transactions made by the consolidator this year. Other firms are expanding by forgoing M&A in favor of just recruiting financial advisors.

The former CEO of Sanctuary's predecessor firm, financial advisor Mark W. Damer, won a major arbitration award related to his 2019 termination.

New As You Sow research tracking hundreds of publicly traded firms adds to the many studies finding a positive correlation between diversity and results.

With $4.4 billion in client assets, the regional institution's wealth program follows mega-recruits including M&T Bank, BMO Harris and others.

In her historic year, Kamila Elliott planted many seeds for improving diversity within, access to and awareness of the financial planning profession, but she says it has a long way to go.