It's a fact: The biggest financial advisors, in terms of assets under management, are wirehouse advisors. Actually, when we began this top advisor list back in September 2002, only a couple of spots were filled by regionals (Legg Mason, for...

As the popularity of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) grows, financial advisors are increasingly pressed to separate the wheat from the chaff, the meat from the gristle, the men from the boys or whatever other stale clich comes to mind. Industry...

The 81-year-old former chairman of the Federal Reserve recently signed on as a senior advisor at Deutsche Bank (at an undisclosed salary). Only time will tell how the economist who helped shape modern financial markets will fare steering a smaller...

The fund industry doesn't have a pricing crisis yet. But if it doesn't take some action, it will. Over the past several years, individual firms have taken a few stabs at creating more consumer-friendly pricing slashing 12b-1 fees on certain shares...

Advanced Equities Financial Corp. hired Keith E. Gregg as president and co-CEO of its independent broker/dealer, First Allied Securities. Gregg, former executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer of Dunham & Associates...

To do list: Get prom dress, pool party at Kristen's send terrorist mail to Goldman Sachs? The FBI is investigating terrorist threats against Goldman Sachs, sent to the media in two separate letters which may or may not have been penned by...

It sure is a great time to be a financial advisor. Consider this: Since 1995, the number of millionaire households in the U.S. has more than doubled. Never before had so many Americans become so rich, so quickly, writes Robert Frank in his new...

The last two years have seen a rash of acquisitions in the broker/dealer world, and more are sure to come. It's no secret that the resulting upheaval makes many advisors think about switching firms. But is that always the wisest choice? It depends...

Many years ago our research on the affluent led us to investigate wealth management teams. We turned our focus to teams simply because it became obvious that it was difficult (if not impossible) to manage the entirety of an affluent client's...

The Party of Roosevelt is talking a lot about taxes these days, about fairness and about how fat-cat hedge fund managers pay taxes at lower rates than school teachers (which, unless the fat cats are grossing most of their money on dividends, can't...