Famed “affluenza teen” Ethan Couch and his mother Tonya were detained by authorities in Mexico on Tuesday after the two fled the country in the wake of a surfaced video depicting an apparent probation violation by the young man, according to ...

Talk about watching an account go up in smoke. Two years ago, Dallas-based advisor Kris Maksimovich had a client who wanted to invest around $150,000 in a medical marijuana dispensary. The client heard it was going to revolutionize the industry...

Michael Kane, the co-founder and “master sensei” of digital investing firm Hedgeable, thinks 2016 will be the year that the robo advisor term is finally retired. “As platforms become more robust and the product set more diversified, pigeonhol...

Don't piss off millennials. | Nastco/iStock/Thinkstock A 24-year-old client with $3,000 in an IRA account recently wrote in to Slate, “My financial advisor is a total sketchball!! What do I do?” After not hearing from the advisor for a mon...

In today’s M&A-rich environment, many advisory firms are looking to get in on the action. But most would-be buyers and sellers come up empty because of unreasonable expectations...

Moving into the high-net-worth space is not the easiest way for a mass-affluent advisor to grow.