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Registered investment advisors operating as financial planners do more for their clients than those that just focus on asset management, but earn less.
According to recent research by Cerulli Associates, financial planners—those 4,041 firms pr...
The industry needs a few good men (and women).
Almost three quarters of broker/dealer and RIA firm executives feel there is an advisor talent shortage, according to a recent poll by Fidelity Investments. But they’re not changing how they r...
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Mothers who work outside the home may be stressed out, but they are raising more successful daughters. According to a new study from Harvard Business School professor Kathleen McGinn, the daughters of w...
Out of our cold, dead hands. | Copyright Melanie Conner, Getty Images
The bond between a professional advisor and his clients is not easily broken. In fact, most consumers would rather give up their smartphone, favorite dessert or coffee t...
North America is still the largest and most developed wealth market in the world, with wealth growing 5.6 percent in 2014, according to the Boston Consulting Group’s 2015 Global Wealth Study. But most of that growth was due to market appreciation...
Fee-based? That's a lie. | jesadaphorn/iStock/Thinkstock
Advisors should never use the term “fee-based” to describe their business. Writing on his Scholarly Financial Planner blog, Ron Rhoades outlines the narrow scope in which advisors ca...
Recent calls by pension fund leaders for companies to rethink share buybacks and to invest more in their businesses are not resonating with some wealth management leaders...
The flow of clients moving to online wealth management services from traditional banks could increase sharply as wealthy clients focus more on low fees and warm to online advice, the co-founder and CEO of British start-up Nutmeg said...
Much gets written about millennials and boomers, but what about the generation in between? Carol Hymowitz at Bloomberg takes a deep dive into the financial situation of Gen X, and it's not pretty. Forty percent do not feel financially secure...
With demographics changing in the United States, large money managers are actively searching for more women and younger financial advisers to better reflect the changing face of society and be more in tune with peoples' plans for their cash...