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With new executive chair position at FMG, Mark Casady continues to focus on AI and financial advisors
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS SEP 11, 2025
With new executive chair position at FMG, Mark Casady continues to focus on AI and financial advisors

It is the second AI-focused business that Casady, the former CEO of LPL, has focused on in less than a year.

By Bruce Kelly
US workers' retirement confidence is sliding from inflation and uncertainty
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 11, 2025
US workers' retirement confidence is sliding from inflation and uncertainty

A pair of surveys point to continuing retirement worries across generations, with one poll showing over a third dipping into their savings for more immediate needs.

By Leo Almazora
Will Social Security stick around? Inquiring clients want to know!
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 11, 2025
Will Social Security stick around? Inquiring clients want to know!

Social Security faces serious funding obstacles ahead and that's creating headaches for financial advisors.

By Gregg Greenberg
Advisor moves: $1B Ameriprise team joins Wells Fargo's FiNet
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS SEP 11, 2025
Advisor moves: $1B Ameriprise team joins Wells Fargo's FiNet

Ameriprise has also added a $130 million advisor from PNC, while a former pro golfer from LPL takes to Cetera's tax-focused community, Avantax.

By Leo Almazora
Investing in AI: Public versus private investments
EXPERT ADVICE SEP 11, 2025
Investing in AI: Public versus private investments

What clients should know about the risks and opportunities

By Thomas Ruggie, ChFC®, CFP®
Bank of America Merrill Lynch joins major firms jostling for the sweet spot to sell alternative investments
WIREHOUSES SEP 11, 2025
Bank of America Merrill Lynch joins major firms jostling for the sweet spot to sell alternative investments

The number of clients using the bank's alternative investment platform has more than doubled in the past five years, according to the company.

By Bruce Kelly
Love and money: The challenges of separating the two when marriage breaks down
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 11, 2025
Love and money: The challenges of separating the two when marriage breaks down

Advisor Sylvia Guinan shares what she’s learned from working with couples.

By Steve Randall
Morgan Stanley's deferred compensation fight
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS SEP 10, 2025
Morgan Stanley's deferred compensation fight

It's early days in what is shaping up to be a long legal battle between Morgan Stanley and former advisors over who controls valuable deferred compensation money.

By Bruce Kelly
Envestnet, Betterment ink new planning-focused partnerships
FINTECH SEP 10, 2025
Envestnet, Betterment ink new planning-focused partnerships

The wealth tech platforms are expanding their offerings for advisors with new philanthropic and estate planning integrations.

By Leo Almazora
Bahamas-based fund adviser, firms agree to multimillion-dollar SEC settlement over fund misrepresentations
ALTERNATIVES SEP 10, 2025
Bahamas-based fund adviser, firms agree to multimillion-dollar SEC settlement over fund misrepresentations

The former Colorado resident allegedly caused private funds his firms advised to make detrimental short-term loans without investors' knowledge, among other fiduciary breaches.

By Leo Almazora
Baird, Sagard join forces to supercharge alternative investment access for US wealth clients
ALTERNATIVES SEP 10, 2025
Baird, Sagard join forces to supercharge alternative investment access for US wealth clients

Baird will take a minority stake in the Canadian asset manager as part of the deal.

By Steve Randall
Retirement envy: Why young Americans doubt matching their parents' later years
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 10, 2025
Retirement envy: Why young Americans doubt matching their parents' later years

Anxiety among those yet to retire is growing, new report reveals.

By Steve Randall
Big money is on the move but young Americans lack financial planning
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 10, 2025
Big money is on the move but young Americans lack financial planning

Confidence is under pressure as the wealth transfer complicates finances.

By Steve Randall
Financial services need an updated regulatory framework
OPINION SEP 09, 2025
Financial services need an updated regulatory framework

With thousands of small independent advisors racing to meet clients' digital expectations, the time has come to repair archaic rules of the road.

By Dale Brown
Judge gives blessing to $25M settlement in Vanguard target-date fund tax lawsuit
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 09, 2025
Judge gives blessing to $25M settlement in Vanguard target-date fund tax lawsuit

The approved compensation would be on top of an even larger $133 million fair fund set up in a related SEC settlement, according to lawyers for the aggrieved investors.

By Leo Almazora
Advisor moves: LPL scoops $1.8B quintet from UBS
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS SEP 09, 2025
Advisor moves: LPL scoops $1.8B quintet from UBS

An ex-Ameriprise duo has also joined LPL in Virginia, while Raymond James welcomes advisors from Edward Jones and Oppenheimer to its network.

By Leo Almazora
Retail sales of alternative funds hits $200B this year
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS SEP 09, 2025
Retail sales of alternative funds hits $200B this year

"The money has gone into BDCs and credit products because of higher yields," said one industry executive.

By Bruce Kelly
RIA moves: SEIA announces second-largest deal with $1.6B California firm
RIA NEWS SEP 09, 2025
RIA moves: SEIA announces second-largest deal with $1.6B California firm

Also, a triple-deal propels Beacon Pointe to reach a $48 billion asset milestone, and Bluespring merges in another Kestra firm.

By Leo Almazora
Americans growing more hopeful about retirement, but lingering doubts persist
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 09, 2025
Americans growing more hopeful about retirement, but lingering doubts persist

InvestmentNews talks to Natixis Center for Investor Insight director Dave Goodsell.

By Steve Randall
AssetMark, Dispatch announce senior hires to boost wealthtech leadership
FINTECH SEP 09, 2025
AssetMark, Dispatch announce senior hires to boost wealthtech leadership

Hires include former innovation lead at mega-RIA Mariner.

By Steve Randall