The Horizon Group, a Rochester, N.Y.-based firm with $430 million in client assets, joined Securities Service Network on Tuesday...

Most of the biggest brokerages risk paying big bucks to bring successful advisors into the fold in the hope they add to the bottom line. But firms can improve the odds by seeking out younger advisors with a predominately fee-based businesses.  ...

Capital One Sharebuilder rebranded on Monday as Capital One Investing, merging its online brokerage and advisory practice divisions. Yvette Butler will manage the new business, which will include a new team of advisors and the upcoming launch...

A judge in Georgia agreed on Wednesday to appoint a mediator to help settle a dispute between the late Martin Luther King Jr.'s children over whether to sell his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Bible he carried during the civil rights...

The way firms stave off attrition is to increase deferred compensation

When I launched Serenity Financial Consulting in 2012, I offered financial planning on an hourly basis and investment management on an AUM basis. Those were the only service options, and I succeeded in working with a very specific kind of client...

Businesses make better decisions when women are involved and, even in the U.S., there needs to be more efforts to promote women into leadership positions, according to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. “It makes for better business...

"It's a family business. You don't get to choose what you want to do. You fill in and you do the role that you need to do to support the family business."