Revenue sharing fees ultimately make retirement plans more expensive, and funds that include them are disproportionately favored on plan menus, a recent academic paper found.
The second half of fiscal 2020 was tough, the firm reported in its annual proxy statement; CEO Paul Reilly's total compensation fell almost 17% from the prior year and other top executives also saw their pay decline.
Lexington Wealth Management adds Marcus Financial Advisors
John and Evan McCoy run Integrity Financial Services in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and were previously affiliated with Securities America
New Jersey-based Modera merges with Pennsylvania-based Independence Advisors; Modera also receives equity infusion from Tria Capital Partners
Enhancing key services such as investment management and eliminating manual operational tasks are becoming central to small RIA-firm success. A leading fintech executive explains how to do it.
Fintech and digital record keeper Vestwell is among about three dozen firms that have registered as pooled plan providers with the DOL, but the firm does not yet have information on pricing and plan design for a potential PEP product.
More than $1 billion poured into a pair of clean-energy exchange traded funds last week as the as the Democratic wins in the Georgia runoff increased the odds that President-elect Joe Biden’s energy policies will come to fruition.
Advisers have been largely optimistic about stock indexes since markets began their initial rebound from the COVID-19 shock, but the gap between their expectations for equities and the overall economy has narrowed.
Sustainable debt market grew in 2020 to $732 billion, an increase of 29%, thanks to social bond issuance.
First course helps advisers identify planning opportunities in tax returns.
Small-cap stocks, which tend to be more cyclical and more volatile, have eclipsed the performance of the stocks of larger companies by most measures over the past nine months. Progress on a COVID vaccine and the reopening of the economy bodes well for more big gains by small-cap funds this year.
The companies that are temporarily halting or rethinking how they donate money to politicians via PACs, or political action committees, are some of the most prominent platforms for financial advisers and registered reps in the industry, including Bank of America Corp., Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab Corp.
Social Security benefits are typically calculated using your highest 35 years of indexed earnings.
McGee Wealth Management, a Portland, Oregon-based firm with 800 clients and $815 million in assets under management, is leveraging the sale for succession planning.
The combination of Los Angeles-based B. Riley and New York-based National Holdings will result in a firm with roughly 900 registered representatives and $29 billion in client assets.
In the first week of the new year, eight significant deals involving advisory firms were announced and a total of $159.6 billion in assets changed hands. Among the buyers and sellers — including Hightower, Sageview Advisory Group and Aquiline Capital Partners — were some of the most significant names in the burgeoning RIA industry.
Clients look to advisers for stability — especially when everything we thought as a nation about our republic was thrown into question in just a few short hours
Will more stimulus, curbing COVID-19 and releasing pent-up demand fuel a second-half surge?
The twin wins give Democrats operational control of the Senate, which is split 50-50s. While Democrats claim the majority because of the tie-breaking vote of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, they hardly have free rein to advance legislation.
