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Most Recent Blog Posts
A $1.2 billion advisor team walked away from Morgan Stanley for Lebenthal Wealth Advisors on Tuesday, saying they wanted to take advantage of an unconflicted service model and more advanced technology. ...
The vast majority, 60 percent, of advisors manages at least one retirement plan. Yet 91 percent of registered investment advisors are only “accommodating,” rather than actively growing, that segment of the business, according to a new...
Summit Brokerage Services is celebrating their near-perfect score (9.9 out of 10) earned in WealthManagement.com’s IBD Report Card in style—Western style, that is.
The firm’s 85 employees at the Boca Raton, Fla. headquarters participated in a BB...
The CFP Board announced Thursday it’s getting more involved in expanding the intellectual heft of the advisory profession, even as it trims down its time-intensive examination process...
For several years the FINRA enforcement arm grew bigger and bigger. Its staff increased. The number of actions increased. The number of fines increased. The number of bars and suspensions increased. And the number of...
Expect banks to become bigger players in the wealth management space. According to a new study by Fidelity, over half of bank executives expect to grow their revenue from wealth management practices by 25 percent in the next five years...
Woodbury Financial selected its new president and CEO from within the ranks, tapping former vice president of and field development Rick Fergesen to lead the firm Monday.
Fergesen takes over the role as president and CEO in charge of leading Woo...
