Wealth Think

Any firm that wants to grow needs to consider how to best manage one of its key assets—its people. Unfortunately, Matt Matirisian reminds us, although most advisors are great entrepreneurs and visionaries, they are not necessarily good people managers.

Your IRA Expert answers questions about a potential new cap on IRAs and how to reduce the tax bill of a self-employed person taking distributions from a 401(K).

For solo practitioners, who's got your back? Here's how one group of RIAs decided to support each other.

During market bubbles a lot of details get overlooked, according to Dawn Bennett. With the Dow hitting a new high of 15,000, we have to ask ourselves – what are we missing? How long can this last?

There are certain common traits and behavioral patterns of the more effective advisors, according to blogger Ken Haman. Of course, not all advisors demonstrate every one of these characteristics, but most of the highly successful people he's been privileged to work with exhibit at least several.

In order to capitalize on the opportunity to focus on female clients, you may be required to break some habits of the past.

When it comes to passive investing, there’s a better way than indexing, according to blogger Steve Atkinson.

Here are five critical things blogger Bill Cates believes advisors should do to turn a referral into a quality introduction.

Twitter just turned seven, Facebook nine and LinkedIn 10. That’s old in Internet years. So what’s taking the finance industry so long to join the party?

Here's one uncomfortable stat for advisors: 90% of assets transferred to the next generation don't stay with the existing advisor. When it comes to your roster of clients, how do you plan to change that?