Location: Melville, N.Y. Assets under Management: $500 million plus Production: $5 million Expertise: CPAs Some advisors make teaming up with CPAs look so easy. Jonathan Kuttin is one of them. But a successful partnership doesn't happen overnight...

Registered Rep.: How will the SEC handle the fiduciary standard for broker/dealers this year? John Taft: They'll propose a rule, ask for comment on that proposed rule, and they're going to do cost-benefit analysis based on that rule, and...

In a March report titled A Tale of Two Millionaires, McKinsey & Company coined the term core millionaires to describe the 4.2 million households in the U.S. with between $1 million and $10 million in assets. These clients are the meat and potatoes...

Location: New York City Assets under Management: $250 million Production: $1.9 million Expertise: LGBT investing The last decade has been a tumultuous one for financial advisory services for the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender community. Before...

Location: San Francisco Assets under Advisement: $1.3 billion Production: N/A Expertise: Socially responsible investing Most advisors don't get socially responsible investing, says Thomas Van Dyck, senior vice president at SRI Wealth Management...

Location: New York City Assets under Advisement: $5.5 billion Production: $5.7 million Expertise: Faith-based investing The Catholic Church is deeply hierarchical, but broad discretion is left to member organizations in the area of investing...

For advisors who were trying to diversify stock-heavy portfolios, 2011 was a year for the record books. While some assets proved to be unusually powerful diversifiers, other investments provided little diversification at all. The unusual pattern...

Here are a few defensive strategies to protect against an end to the runup in fixed income over the past few years.

Advisor interest in social media is accelerating across multiple channels, new research by Registered Rep. shows. The two polls of more than 1,400 Rep. readers conducted just six months apart in September 2011 and in March 2012 showed the share of...

Repeat Offender Brian Raymond Callahan was a repeat offender, as is so often the case with white collar crime. In 2009, the Financial Regulatory Industry Authority barred him from associating with any FINRA member, so he went the investment...