Last year's roaring stock market helped IBD bellwether LPL Financial post record results. The company expects commission revenue from sales of alternative investments such as nontraded REITs to dip from the elevated levels of 2013 but remain solid.
Almost 20% of the 695 advisers who joined the firm last year came from big Wall Street firms. How long will this strategy work?
Waiting until age 60 or later to remarry preserves Social Security benefits.
Here's why one behavioral finance expert says all of those market prognosticators are wrong.
Finra plans to crack down on potential conflicts of interest that could affect brokers when they roll over a client's company retirement plan into an individual retirement account.
It's a tough discussion that's not going away. It's only going to get tougher.
Economist predicts weakness, slow growth will persist in world markets
Advisory firms are using secure BYOD software as use of personal smartphones and tablets grows.
Competition for deals increases as more buyers are chasing fewer sellers across the independent broker-dealer space.
Your new competition for wealth management clients can come from anywhere, according to marketing and tech maven April Rudin.
He will remain head of the DC business; Bruce Wolfe is COO of new business.
After more than 25 years at the firm, Chet Helck, CEO of Raymond James private-client group, says he's ready to step down. But the executive will remain as a special senior adviser at the firm through the end of the year.
How are traditional data tools adapting to this bold new era of BIg Data?
A little more than a year after Raymond James introduced its Goal Planning and Monitoring software powered by MoneyGuidePro to its advisers, the firm reports that the software has been used to create 50,000 financial plans.
Despite an acquisition spree, REIT czar Nicholas Schorsch insists that his goal is not to get bigger — it's to get better.
As it pursues a series of broker-dealer acquisitions, RCS Capital Corp. has signed on with smart-data technology startup Vestorly in a digital-marketing deal designed to connect brokers with client prospects.
Less than 10% of advisers actually have a formal referral process that is proactive in nature, have documented steps that can be measured, and a process that is systematized to become a powerful growth engine. Timothy Welsh writes: This needs to change.
