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Creating an equity ownership track: Look before you leap
OPINION MAY 10, 2023
Creating an equity ownership track: Look before you leap

While the economics have to work for the owners and partners of the firm, they have to make sense for the next-gen advisors, too.

By Kristine McManus
Financial planning for your client's chimpanzee  — or other pets
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 10, 2023
Financial planning for your client's chimpanzee — or other pets

There are several approaches an advisor can take to give a client peace of mind regarding their pet's future care.

By Gregg Greenberg
Tax expertise opens the door to wealth advisory careers
OPINION MAY 10, 2023
Tax expertise opens the door to wealth advisory careers

Accounting firms are expanding rapidly into wealth management. But can tax and audit experts transition to financial advisory careers?

By Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk
Unflinching guidance is your ultimate fiduciary duty
OPINION MAY 10, 2023
Unflinching guidance is your ultimate fiduciary duty

The longer the bear market continues, the more likely your clients will be to abandon their financial plans, sell their growth assets, and potentially impair their financial futures.

By Scott Hanson
More companies try to lure workers with benefits
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 10, 2023
More companies try to lure workers with benefits

Mentions of employee benefits in job postings on a recruiting website have soared to the highest rates on record, with one in four jobs now offering retirement plans.

By Bloomberg
Advisor, industry groups blast SEC custody proposal
RIAS MAY 09, 2023
Advisor, industry groups blast SEC custody proposal

Trade groups question a provision in the proposal that would deem advisors with discretionary authority over client accounts to have control of the assets.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Advisor Group B-D snares RBC advisors with $250 million in client assets
BROKER DEALERS MAY 09, 2023
Advisor Group B-D snares RBC advisors with $250 million in client assets

Minnesota-based Tom Delich had worked at RBC for almost 23 years; he and his team are joining Financial Dimensions Group, a unit of Royal Alliance Associates.

By Bruce Kelly
Goldman to pay $215 million to settle case on underpaying women
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION MAY 09, 2023
Goldman to pay $215 million to settle case on underpaying women

The trial, which had been scheduled for next month in New York, would have provided a rare public forum for testimony about inequality inside the financial industry.

By Bloomberg
Ex-Brinker execs launch firm catering to RIAs and foreign banks looking to start RIAs
RIAS MAY 09, 2023
Ex-Brinker execs launch firm catering to RIAs and foreign banks looking to start RIAs

Jason Moore and John Coyne have high hopes for their three-pronged business model at Ategenos Capital.

By Jeff Benjamin
Audits on the rise amid a resurgent IRS
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 09, 2023
Audits on the rise amid a resurgent IRS

If the IRS thinks a taxpayer owes money, its efforts to collect could include levying bank accounts, placing liens on their home, garnishing their salary, and even refusing to issue a passport.

By Gregg Greenberg
Psychological factors keep advisors from growing assets: Study
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 09, 2023
Psychological factors keep advisors from growing assets: Study

A notable 43% of financial advisors worry about being perceived as 'pushy' when they're trying to grow their businesses.

By Gregg Greenberg
Schwab starts hedging interest-rate risk with derivatives  
INDUSTRY NEWS MAY 09, 2023
Schwab starts hedging interest-rate risk with derivatives  

The derivatives were valued at $3.9 billion as of March 31, the Westlake, Texas-based company said in a regulatory filing.

By Bloomberg
Cresset bulks up multifamily office by merging with True Capital Management
RIAS MAY 09, 2023
Cresset bulks up multifamily office by merging with True Capital Management

True brings $1.7 billion and a raft of athlete and entertainer clients to the Cresset platform, which is hovering around $33 billion.

By Jeff Benjamin
First Republic advisor joins Certuity
RIAS MAY 08, 2023
First Republic advisor joins Certuity

Daniel Lee had been affiliated with First Republic since 2013 and was credited with bringing in $7 billion in assets.

By InvestmentNews
Maine legislators halt bill opposed to use of ESG factors
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 08, 2023
Maine legislators halt bill opposed to use of ESG factors

State pension professionals argued against it, saying the legislation would limit investment considerations.

By Emile Hallez
Advisors stick with Treasuries despite political tension over debt limit
EQUITIES MAY 08, 2023
Advisors stick with Treasuries despite political tension over debt limit

'It's sort of like the nicest house on an ugly block, which, relatively speaking, is the best place to be,' said one advisor.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Pinnacle Private Wealth goes indie with Commonwealth
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 08, 2023
Pinnacle Private Wealth goes indie with Commonwealth

The Wisconsin-based firm with $220 million in client assets had been with Associated Investment Services; it will join Commonwealth via an affiliated firm, Integrated Equity Management.

By InvestmentNews
Hightower takes stake in TEN Capital
RIAS MAY 08, 2023
Hightower takes stake in TEN Capital

The firm, with offices in Spokane and Seattle, Washington, oversees $1 billion in assets.

By InvestmentNews
Credit markets keeping eye on debt ceiling negotiations
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION MAY 08, 2023
Credit markets keeping eye on debt ceiling negotiations

President Joe Biden has invited congressional leaders for a May 9 meeting after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggested the US might exhaust its options to fund itself as early as June 1.

By Bloomberg
LPL adds $210 million team from Wells Fargo
BROKER DEALERS MAY 08, 2023
LPL adds $210 million team from Wells Fargo

The father-son duo of Jeffrey and Justin Katz are joining LPL’s employee channel and will operate as Katz Wealth Advisors of LPL Financial.

By InvestmentNews