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Those who are mesmerized by the successful strategies of well-known leaders often fail if they can’t adapt these ideas to their own circumstances.

Girl Power. | Copyright Spencer Platt, Getty Images Pax Ellevate Management is encouraging the companies in its Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Index Fund (PXWEX) to sign onto the Women’s Empowerment Principles, a joint initiative of the United ...

Over half of advisors—54 percent—say they’ve been using “rep as portfolio manager” (Rep as PM) platforms for the past five years, managing investment portfolios across client accounts. Only about 10 percent of advisors surveyed say they don’t use...

Does a $10 million advisor grow by buying a book? By getting a junior partner? Or is there another way? Our panel of experts weighs in. 

Money may be counted and measured in round numbers, but it is actually an emotionally charged subject for kids and adults.

For an advisor, a prospective new firm and a nice up-front check might be the best thing since sliced bread, but if a sizeable portion of the client base doesn’t follow, the move could prove disastrous. So before an advisor’s thought process star...

What day is it? Training day. Training Magazine announced this week that Edward Jones took the No. 17 spot on its Training Top 125, a list of the companies across all industries in the U.S. that have the best employee learning and developmen...

Failure has emerged as a welcome teacher in other industries, but not yet in financial services. Here’s how to learn from “the other F word.”