Industry

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...

Help the staff of WealthManagement.com identify the contenders for its annual Wealth Management Madness tournament by naming who you believe to be the most influential person in the industry over the past year. Fill out this form with the name ...

The Consumer Federation of America and Americans for Financial Reform have joined together with the nation's largest employment unions and the AARP to mount a public campaign supporting of the Department of Labor’s proposed fiduciary...

CNBC has not been the same ever since Maria Bartiromo left for Fox. | Copyright Mario Tama, Getty Images The financial TV news channel CNBC had one of its worst years on record in 2014, all while the stock markets continued to hit all-time h...

Lee Walters/iStock/Thinkstock The public doesn't trust the financial services industry, according to the CFA Institute's 2015 Global Market Sentiment Survey, and the industry is blaming itself for it. According to the survey, 63 percent of p...

The good ole days. | Copyright George Marks, Getty Images Ever wonder how you wound up in an office cubicle instead of a private office with your own secretary, couch and wet bar? The Economist takes a deep dive into the history of the cubic...

Every asset manager wants to get in front of financial advisors, but they may apply a bit more muscle this year as many plan to devote more money to their marketing budgets. According to a study published in latest issue of The Cerulli Edge – Gl...