(Bloomberg) -- UBS Group AG’s wealth management and investment-banking businesses failed to recover in the first quarter as “challenging” conditions continued into this year, Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermotti said...

Independent brokers are still largely satisfied with the firms they affiliate with, though scores have dropped slightly over recent years. 

In its sixth year, the annual WealthManagement.com Independent Broker/Dealer Report Card emailed an online questionnaire to print subscribers, online registrants and other advisors at more than 80 IBDs in the Meridian-IQ database (WealthManagemen...

More money, more problems?  For financial advisors at the independent broker/dealers surveyed in WealthManagement.com’s 2016 IBD report card, a big paycheck doesn't always indicate a higher satisfaction score. In fact, the smaller the firm...

Larger Firms More Prone to Lose Advisors

Minneapolis-based Wealth Enhancement Group, the registered investment advisory bought by private equity firm Lightyear Capital last April, has acquired HHG & Company, a Darien, Conn.-based RIA with $1 billion in assets. While Wealth...

Today’s best offices of supervisory jurisdiction deploy professional business consultants, guerrilla marketing and innovative transition strategies to large pools of independent brokers. 

Advisors aren’t worried as much about changing client demographics as they are about hiring the right advisors to serve them...