Financial advisors work countless hours helping clients plan their financial futures. But, unfortunately, too many advisors need help planning their financial futures. Today, only about 18 percent of independent advisors have a well-defined...

Lessons learned from the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 are serving wealth managers well as they—and their clients—confront a cascade of unsettling economic news from the Mideast and Japan.

FINRA deemed that an advisor’s tweets about a public company were unbalanced and lacked the necessary disclosure about the “substantial positions” held in the stock by the advisor and her family.

Bankers need to flaunt their status as fiduciaries to battle expected competition from broker/dealers,

The personal touch is still the most effective way for wealth managers to grow their business, but the use of social media is gaining fast, according to a new study by Advisors Trusted Advisor, a Medfield, Mass.-based practice management...

PriceMetrix Chief Executive Doug Trott has a message for fee-based advisors: think about charging more. The Toronto-based practice management and software business says it’s seeing growth among its fee-based clients but that pricing is under...

Fort Lauderdale: “We’re considering integrating social media into our marketing plan,” Joseph started out saying. Then he backtracked—“Yet, all we hear about it is what we can’t do from a compliance perspective. What is the benefit of even getting...

Focusing on clients and growth is the natural instinct of our industry. Still, before we turn the page to a new year, we all have to make sure that we have brought to conclusion all the open items from this one.