The next iteration of the firm’s 'Advisor Sleeve' technology will allow advisors to stress-test their model portfolios using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The fifth-annual Advisor Authority survey showed that more than half of advisors and investors were concerned about market volatility and a U.S. economic recession within the next 12 months.

Joseph Ready is now the head of Trust & Fiduciary Services for the scandal-ridden bank, and the first chief fiduciary officer.

Pivotal Planning Group serves high-net-worth families and employer retirement plans for small businesses.

A group of 11 financial trade organizations plan to ask the state's securities regulator to reconsider its fiduciary rule in the wake of the SEC's Reg BI rules passed recently.

The Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth said the SEC's Reg BI fails to protect investors with a fiduciary standard for brokers, and so it's looking to impose one of its own.

The wealth management firm born from the Rockefeller & Co. family office continues to hire and expand, eyeing $100 billion in assets.

In addition to a steady stream of acquisitions, the firm organically grew by more than $1 billion in new assets in both 2017 and 2018.

'We don't have any kind of real competition in the market," said Rajini Kodialam, Focus Financial Partners' co-founder and COO.

Model portfolios, referrals from Merrill Edge and tapping into "overlap" with Bank of America's commercial unit were driving advisor efficiencies and bringing in record numbers of new clients.