Practice Management

UBS Wealth Management Americas has launched a newly-created unit known as wealth planning and investment strategies, according to an internal memo at the firm.

LPL continues its growth streak with the acquisition of assets from National Retirement Partners, a California based broker/dealer.

Over the years, we’ve offered expert advice to financial advisors with business problems to solve in the Fix My Business column. We thought it was time to check back in with some of the advisors we counseled to see how they fared.

Used to be that plenty of FAs hoped one day to become branch managers. That was then.

Will a broader application of the fiduciary standard be accompanied by higher insurance costs? Some broker/dealers are bracing for the possibility.

It can be difficult on a personal level to watch a client, whom you may have known for years, begin to lose his mental capacity. But if that client is the settlor of a revocable trust of which you are a trustee, the settlor's incompetence can...