Rarely have all the stars aligned to shine on a profession and create an environment as favorable as the universe facing financial advisors today. The demographic and financial market dynamics ...

Beginning almost 20 years ago, an obscure advisor in El Cajon, Calif., published a series of papers defining sustainable withdrawal rates from retirement portfolios. Based on a historical ...

Ken Griffin is pointing an outstretched arm toward his field of dreams. On this Wednesday afternoon in early February, the CEO of Citadel, one of the world’s largest and most profitable hedge funds, ...

Only a tiny percentage of investors who contributed to their retirement plans are making catch-up contributions, according to new research from the Public Retirement Research Lab, a data tracker for ...

For a profession that is half a century old, the financial advice business is still troubled by certain frustrations. Near the top of that list is the fact that, unlike medicine and law, the ...

Time, money and competition put pressure on RIA owners to be decisive, but taking action can be hard without assurances of success, and it can be reckless to act on gut instinct. To compete, advisors ...

CFPs who sell annuities are subject to a tougher fiduciary standard, as well as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) suitability model regulation, the CFP Board said in new guide ...

Andre El-Baba never imagined an investment fund could trap him. A lifelong property manager from Vancouver, he’d spent decades navigating real estate markets and thought he understood risk. So when he ...

At the height of the Gilded Age, there were 4,047 millionaires in the U.S., according to an 18-month investigation by the long-gone New-York Tribune, which listed each by name in a special edition ...

Lido Advisors, a Los Angeles wealth advisory firm with more than $29 billion in regulatory assets under management, announced it is acquiring Utah RIA Olympus Wealth Management, which manages more ...

The job outlook for personal financial advisors is promising. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of advisory jobs is projected to grow 13% from 2022 to 2032, far outpacing the 3% ...

The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced the Securities and Exchange Commission’s power to recover illegal profits in a case that centered on one of the agency’s most potent enforcement tools. The justices ...