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Flourish aims to shake up RIA lending capabilities through acquisition
FINTECH MAR 21, 2025
Flourish aims to shake up RIA lending capabilities through acquisition

MassMutual's fintech platform to add AI-powered insights, data.

By Steve Randall
Want to build trust in financial services? Learn to navigate blind spots
OPINION MAR 21, 2025
Want to build trust in financial services? Learn to navigate blind spots

To improve the industry's middle-of-the-pack ranking in client trust, firms must work harder to understand the belief systems, core needs, and values driving different stakeholder groups.

SEC unveils Marketing Rule guidelines around private investments, performance reporting
ALTERNATIVES MAR 20, 2025
SEC unveils Marketing Rule guidelines around private investments, performance reporting

New guidance addresses some areas of ambiguity for investment firms, but they may require a revamp for some materials.

By Leo Almazora
UBS to be 'the biggest loser' in fight for advisors in 2025, recruiting firm predicts
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 20, 2025
UBS to be 'the biggest loser' in fight for advisors in 2025, recruiting firm predicts

Toward the end of last year, UBS said it was redrawing its pay plan for advisors.

By Bruce Kelly
Ex-Wells Fargo advisor fined over $50,000 fund transfer requested by client with dementia
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION MAR 20, 2025
Ex-Wells Fargo advisor fined over $50,000 fund transfer requested by client with dementia

Finra settlement says the advisor failed to inform his former employer about the client's condition until after he resigned.

By Leo Almazora
Don't sell your winners, donate them to charity instead
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 20, 2025
Don't sell your winners, donate them to charity instead

If you are going to let your winners run, let them run for a good cause while lowering your tax bill.

By Gregg Greenberg
Is LPL gearing up for another major acquisition?
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAR 19, 2025
Is LPL gearing up for another major acquisition?

"LPL's salespeople are all over the place," said one senior industry executive.

By Bruce Kelly
Judge rejects Franklin Templeton’s bid to revive defenses in blockchain case
FINTECH MAR 18, 2025
Judge rejects Franklin Templeton’s bid to revive defenses in blockchain case

Ruling allows trade secrets and contract claims over fintech technology to proceed to trial.

More senior executives leave rebranded SoCal B-D, Realta
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAR 18, 2025
More senior executives leave rebranded SoCal B-D, Realta

The firm’s CFO, head of recruiting, and head of advisor relations have followed its CEO out the door.

By Bruce Kelly
When the chainsaw comes for the SEC
OPINION MAR 18, 2025
When the chainsaw comes for the SEC

Sound guidance from financial advisors and brokers – whether fiduciary or best interest – may be increasingly important.

By InvestmentNews
The hidden currency risk in global investing: what advisors need to know
OPINION MAR 18, 2025
The hidden currency risk in global investing: what advisors need to know

For those seeking international exposure amid economic uncertainty, understanding the impact of the US dollar's strength over other currencies is more important than ever.

By Stuart Thomas
SEC accuses RIA firm, owner of violating settlement in multi-year fraud
RIA NEWS MAR 18, 2025
SEC accuses RIA firm, owner of violating settlement in multi-year fraud

Commission says that fund and its investors lost $1.6M as a result.

By Steve Randall
Stifel loses another hefty arbitration case – this time to ex-advisors
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAR 17, 2025
Stifel loses another hefty arbitration case – this time to ex-advisors

This dispute centered on a group of Stifel Financial advisors who left the firm two years ago to an RIA.

By Bruce Kelly
'We have something special here'
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAR 17, 2025
'We have something special here'

Janney Montgomery Scott's president and CEO tells IN about the firm's acquisition by KKR, the equity ownership arrangement for all its advisor employees, and how it plans to continue for another 200 years.

By Leo Almazora
More workers dipped into their retirement savings last year, Vanguard finds
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 17, 2025
More workers dipped into their retirement savings last year, Vanguard finds

Sneak peek into annual defined contribution plan report shows average participant balances reached an all-time high amid rising equity markets.

By Leo Almazora
Social Security Administration sets record straight on dead people getting benefits
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 17, 2025
Social Security Administration sets record straight on dead people getting benefits

Of millions of deaths reported yearly, just a fraction of a percent are "erroneously reported" cases that need to be corrected, the agency said.

By Leo Almazora
Risks and opportunities ahead of the great wealth transfer
OPINION MAR 17, 2025
Risks and opportunities ahead of the great wealth transfer

Younger heirs may “be more dubious about forming traditional client-advisor relationships, having grown up with different expectations about financial guidance”.

Financial advisors, what is your volatility game plan for client management?
OPINION MAR 14, 2025
Financial advisors, what is your volatility game plan for client management?

With targeted "comfort calls" and strategically automated follow-ups, advisors who leverage their CRM systems effectively can show up when clients need them most.

By Adrian Johnstone
No new trial for convicted GPB Capital executives
ALTERNATIVES MAR 14, 2025
No new trial for convicted GPB Capital executives

"I've seen lots of denial in this business but this GPB thing take the cake," says one industry executive.

By Bruce Kelly
Edward Jones hit with lawsuit claiming discrimination against white advisors
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAR 14, 2025
Edward Jones hit with lawsuit claiming discrimination against white advisors

Former advisor alleges an incentive for veteran advisors to give business to women and nonwhite rookies disadvantages straight white male advisors.

By Leo Almazora