Merrill team leaves for LPL's hybrid platform, plan-sponsor support for advisors lagging, and Raymond James gains Chicago advisors.

The network of fee-based financial planners is growing in members and assets, and attracting more attention from the industry.

If your firm missed Monday's deadline for New York's new cybersecurity regulations, you still have time to get your act together.

The process of altering the rule in some capacity is now under way.

BlackRock mined regulatory filings of more than 500 insurance companies and modeled their portfolios in a similar downturn.

“My backyard is now a fast-flowing body of water,” said Byron Ellis, managing director at United Capital in The Woodlands, Texas.

Timing can mean everything, and buyers are preparing to pounce.

A Merrill Lynch advisor hangs up his license after 23 years with the firm to join Midland, Texas–based Syntal Capital Partners.

In a letter to an insurance company suing the department, it said the clause “will likely be mooted in the near future.”

A report from the World Economic Forum predicts three possible scenarios for advisors.