Someone had to be first. Folio Investing and Folio Institutional announced Tuesday that it would be the first broker/dealer to offer NextShares, the actively managed funds that look like exchange-traded funds, directly to individual invest...

Mutual advantages accrue when advisors enter into fee relationships with other advisors.   

Don't forget scissors. | ronstik/iStock/Thinkstock How much does it really cost to set up a registered investment advisory firm? In a recent blog post, RIA in a Box estimates a solo advisor with less than $20 million in assets would need $...

That's one idea. | Copyright Max Whittaker, Getty Images Many of the investment innovations cooked up for big institutional players (think pensions, endowments, insurance companies) eventually roll down to the retail channel; consider liab...

When a firm is acquired, advisors are left wondering what’s next for themselves and for their clients.

Saving for their future. | Glen Cooper/Getty Images September is known as college savings month, and Ascensus College Savings, a 529 plan provider, is marking the occasion by launching Learn529.com, a website to educate families about coll...

Can't live with them, can't live without them. | pxel66/iStock/Thinkstock Apparently even advisors trust an algorithm to manage investments. In a recent survey of 134 independent financial advisors, 60 percent said they would trust a so-ca...

Tony Barrett is networking with other minorities to support diversity in the business.

Risk alert. | Copyright Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning broker/dealers that their guardrails around selling so-called structured notes are, almost without exception, weak. The commission iss...