With the acquisition of Farr Miller & Washington, Hightower will install founder Michael Farr as its new chief market strategist.
Preliminary research results indicate there's a strong correlation between genuine leaders and authentic fiduciaries.
The agency charged 21 investment advisers and six brokerages with missing delivery or posting deadlines. The customer relationship summary outlines fees, services and potential conflicts of interest and is supposed to help clients understand business practices.
Legg Mason vet Joe Sullivan is bullish on the future of Allspring Global Investments. The $604 billion asset management arm of Wells Fargo & Co. is being acquired for $2.1 billion by GTCR and Reverence Capital Partners.
Twenty percent of high-net-worth clients say they're likely to switch their primary financial adviser this year, according to a Northwestern Mutual survey.
Should something that happened when applicants were teenagers still be held against them?
Across the financial advice world, convergence is the name of the game.
Fortunately, this is an industry that’s primarily focused on serving all communities.
Rock-bottom interest rates have fueled the biggest borrowing binge on record, and even billionaires with enough cash to fill a swimming pool are loathe to sit it out.
Acquisition of Toronto-based Gavin Hockey Wealth Specialists gives Focus Financial another foothold in a market moving toward independence.
Whether they're inclined to stay or to go, advisers owe it to their clients and themselves to pay attention to the subtle, but important, changes happening at the company.
Employers that are dog-friendly might be more likely to have happy workers, especially after the pandemic.
The bank is planning to hire more than 500 advisers in its traditional brokerage business in coming years, bringing the total in that unit to 1,000.
Temporary relief from onsite examinations, which began at the start of the pandemic, is set to expire in December.
New report shows financial adviser conference attendees are less impressed with sponsor status than they are with solid content from those sponsors.
Three advisers who operate as West End Advisory in St. Louis make the move.
The mention of GPB auditors in a court filing highlights earlier allegations of executives using clients' money for their own personal benefit. Focused on independent broker-dealers, GPB was a leading seller of high-risk private placements in the past decade.
Miami-based Green Grove Wealth Management is affiliating with Insigneo.
The agency's risk alert highlights problems that it found in examinations of more than 100 advisers who served as portfolio managers or sponsors of wrap-fee programs or who advised their clients’ accounts through third-party wrap managers.
Cash spreads are certainly nothing new, but with almost $64 billion in assets, Charles Schwab & Co. is likely the largest robo-adviser to hold significant chunks of client assets in cash.
