Firm expects to spend $135 million on technology this year, more than double what it spent four years ago.
Client Goals will track an investor's progress toward financial goals.
Wirehouses continued to lose advisers last year, although at a slower pace.
Mistake occurred on a webpage with brokers' biographies.
Indie B-D recruited $27.3 billion in brokerage and advisory assets in 2018, at the same time the firm was experiencing big shake-ups in its operations.
Key news for the wealth management industry included the Edelman-Financial Engines merger, the Focus Financial IPO and the seller's market in RIAs
Latest rule tells arbitrators that expungement should be a 'rare remedy.'
The SEC charged the firm's former chairman in September with fraud.
Recent moves at LPL Financial make it clear that the firm will target more brokers who now work at wirehouses.
Firm awarded broker sales awards, despite mutual-fund churning flagged to home office, according to Finra.
It's crucial for advisers to kick the tires thoroughly on any potential transition, starting with questions about the firm's capabilities, products, support and financials.
Regulators are making inquiries into GPB and the broker-dealers that sold their fund shares, according to sources.
After a period of decline, the regional brokerage industry is scoring recruiting gains at the expense of wirehouses.
The broker recommended that a customer open an account away from Securities America.
World Equity has close to 180 brokers and nearly $40 million in annual revenue.
The advisers will expand the New Jersey footprint of LPL-affiliate Gladstone Advisors
Richard Fisher and Dan Sullivan have joined the firm as senior vice presidents and financial advisers. Together, they generate more than $1 million in annual revenue.
The purchase will boost LPL's plans to build a next-generation, integrated adviser technology platform.
LPL seen as well-suited for the credit union's wealth management unit.
IBDs registered a five-year compound annual growth rate in assets of 11%, almost double that of wirehouses, Cerulli reports.
