Baby boomers are expected to face major losses in their 401(k) plans and IRAs in the next few years as interest rates climb, according to a new study by Casey, Quirk & Associates, an investment management consultant. About $1.2 trillion of def...

Cetera Financial Group has a new leader for its wealth management division. Former Pershing executive Steve Dunlap will take the place of the departing Barnaby Grist, who is leaving the firm for personal reasons. Grist’s replacement most r...

There’s a shortage of younger advisors entering the field, and it’s only going to get worse. Firms need to beef up their training programs and explore new sources of talent.

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Emerging markets, it seems, have garnered a lot of attention of late. To classify that attention would be difficult — some has been good, some bad; some of it accurate, some not so much. As the largest manager of EM assets in the world, we are...

Over the last couple years, the big threat to the financial advisor industry has been the self-directed channel, which holds $3.68 trillion of the U.S. wealth management pie and hasenjoyed a compounded growth rate of 19 percent in the past two...