With a shortage of advisers facing the industry, the cost to keep them will continue to go up, Fidelity's Waldemar Kohl said. The median compensation cost per lead adviser has grown to $174,000 this year from $165,000 in 2009, according to numbers presented at the conference. And personnel costs make up about 70% of adviser expenses.
A group of veteran Morgan Stanley managers has broken away from the wirehouse to form a partnership with Raymond James to offer equity ownership and succession planning to advisers.
Anyone who thinks they have busy days should listen to Chris Pollard's tale. This Regent Wealth Management Group financial adviser spent a year activated in the Army National Guard as a budget analyst by day — while serving his 100 advisory clients at night and over the weekends.
Cerulli study forecasts a drop of more than 25,000 advisers by 2017, most from wirehouses and broker-dealers. The problem? A lack of new recruits.
Recent moves point to building momentum after year and a half of sluggish action
Financial firms asked to shorten the time it takes to recover from an emergency.
Advisers encouraged to increase disaster preparedness following Superstorm Sandy
Arizona group of about 40 financial advisory practices joins LPL. The network's founder is looking to add 50 new offices next year.
Tradeweb deal will combine technology and services from BondDesk and Tradeweb Retail to create a rebranded Tradeweb Direct retail fixed-income division.
What separates most advisory firms from one another is not someone's investment prowess but rather their ability to serve their clients. To do that effectively, we sometimes have to “unscale” our business.
UBS hires father-son adviser team managing $144M from rival wirehouse Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.
By 2020, the majority of wealth management will probably still involve real, live wealth managers, but the rise of the "robo-advisers" continues. Are you ready?
Ohio Securities Commissioner Andrea Seidt is concerned that the Securities and Exchange Commission is getting bogged down.
When your clients wake up in the middle of the night with sweaty palms, what are they afraid of? What is it they ultimately want you to protect them from?
Technology has vastly improved transactions in our industry, but JP Nicols says we also need it to improve relationships.
Are women on the rise or dropping out of the career track before the next promotion? A snapshot from the 2013 <i>InvestmentNews</i>/Moss Adams Adviser Compensation and Staffing Study capturing gender breakdown of pay and work in the advisory industry.
Microsoft has released its first major update for Windows 8 with a slew of fixes intended to improve features and address many usability issues and concerns with the original release. Is it time to make a change?
The financial industry has a tendency to blame mainstream media for hyping financial news, and yet, is guilty of the same crime where social media is concerned, according to Robert Sofia of Platinum Strategies
