Preempting a move by the Securities and Exchange Commission to propose and enforce a uniform fiduciary standard among financial advisors, the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard released a set of 11 best practices on Thursday for RIAs and brokers...

Investors could be losing 10 to 15 percent of their potential retirement savings because of conflicted advice from brokers, according to a memo written by White House economic advisors that could galvanize presidential support for new rules...

While Raymond James Financial’s revenue and earnings were up year-over-year, they fell sequentially, due in part to volatility and uncertainty in the capital markets segment as well as a $10.5 million adjustment related to mutual fund...

Both President Barack and Republicans promised to deliver cybersecurity legislation on Tuesday, but it remains unclear what those proposals will look like and how they will benefit advisors and financial services firms...

Despite efforts to draw more people into this industry, the ranks of financial advisors just got smaller. A recent report by Cerulli Associates found that the industry shrank 1.9 percent to 287,119 advisors in 2013. Asset levels, however, are on ...

Your clients shouldn’t be jumping for joy or buying you a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle if their portfolios outperformed in 2014. They should, instead, give you the boot, says wealth advisor Ed Butowsky, writing on TheBlaze.com. Advisors whose cli...

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