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The man behind the mask. Michael Batnick, the director of research for Ritholtz Wealth Management, takes a recent news article -- about an asset manager announcing he will equal-weight the S&P 500 as if it were a new strategy -- as an oppo...

As part of our #FiduciaryFriday series this month, we asked TD Ameritrade Institutional's Skip Schweiss to provide his thoughts on the Labor Department's fiduciary rulemaking efforts. He has a very simple response to brokers...

Gough Financial joins the network. Gough Financial Group, a Wichita, Kan.-based advisory firm with $300 million of assets under management, announced Thursday that it joined Transcendent Advisor Networks, an office of supervisory jurisdict...

John Hailer says the federal government should not mandate a preference for passive index funds

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...