More than 600 firms now on platform; rival products from Schwab, TD on the way
The creators of PreciseFP, a slick-looking online client questionnaire used by financial advisers, today announced integrations with two popular programs.
What to do while waiting for the participant advice rule to be finalized.
Your wealthy 85-year-old client has spent his life assembling a multimillion-dollar collection of rare <i>objets d'art</i>. He's also got a wine cellar full of Chateau Mouton Rothschild and a set of rare pool cues.
Many wealth managers get into the business with confidence and high hopes, envisioning that intelligence, ambition and devoted customer service will prevail.
As Congress heads toward its summer recess, it looks unlikely that legislators will make progress any time soon on the estate tax. That leaves financial planners and their clients in the lurch.
When courting potential clients, advisers typically trumpet their services —as they should. But advisers need to go beyond the standard tick box of offerings.
Morningstar QuoteSpeed, an online application which has been available in beta form since last October, has now officially become part of the company's lineup of products for advisers.
The AIG broker-dealer network, now called Advisor Group, has managed to invest in and enhance its technology, despite the turmoil surrounding its parent company, American International Group Inc.
HighTower Advisors LLC, a dually-registered firm that has been successful in luring talent from wirehouses, today announced that it is furthering its expansion efforts by hiring two recruiters who will focus on the Midwest and Western regions of the country.
Elliot Weissbluth calls suit an intimidation tactic designed to deter other advisers from leaving
HighTower Advisors LLC last Tuesday announced that it had snapped up another team of advisers, this time from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC.
Women control about 27% of the world's wealth — roughly $20 trillion — but many feel that their advisers patronize them. What's more, many contend that they don't get the same “square deal” as men.
Jeffrey Sica spent more than four years plotting his move from Wells Fargo Advisors LLC to independence but stumbled a day before he planned to give notice.
TD Ameritrade Institutional reported today that it has attracted more breakaway advisers to the firm during the first nine months of its current fiscal year than it did in all of fiscal 2009.
Registered investment advisers are starting to increase compensation levels at their firms — and are also spending more on employee benefits — according to a survey from TD Ameritrade Institutional.
