New strategic partnership with The Retirement Advisor University will build an omnichannel platform designed to bring wealth management and financial planning to an increased number of retirement plan participants.

Informa and WealthManagement.com’s partnership with The Retirement Advisor University aims to educate and empower retirement plan advisors, plan participants.

The move signals the escalation of the convergence of wealth, retirement and benefits at work.

Merchant provided capital to become a minority investor in Southwestern Investment Group, as well as the debt facility for the principals and their advisors to buy their shares from the hybrid RIA's parent company.

According to the commission’s complaint, Florida-based former advisor and broker German Nino made numerous unauthorized transfers, allegedly using the money to purchase gifts and to pay back a prior victim’s misappropriated funds.

Commonwealth is now structuring its forgivable notes for new advisors as basis points on the advisors' assets, rather than their production—another sign it continues to see itself as a national RIA.

Envestnet's investment in Ellevest comes as the automated advice platform surpasses $1 billion in AUM.

He confronted employees after a mistaken drink order sent his peanut-allergic son to the hospital.