The firm’s net new assets in the wealth management business were up 183% from a year ago, which executives attribute to net new clients, asset consolidation from existing clients and stock plan retention.
Sen. Jeff Merkley and Rep. Bill Foster have introduced a new bill addressing an old issue—whether to ban mandatory arbitration agreements between investors and advisors.
Kuttin Wealth Management's Jonathan Kuttin describes how his business grew more by getting advisors completely out of the prospecting business and focused on the client experience.
Betterment, Skience and Docupace filled out their C-suites, while Snappy Kraken closed a Series A round of funding and Envestnet deepened its Practifi partnership.
Amid a proxy battle with an activist investor, advisors who recently left Avantax say service levels suffered and fees rose after parent company Blucora acquired and combined their broker/dealers.