Perhaps one should avoid the temptation to use house metaphors when describing something like an RIA business. And yet. Like your house, your advisory firm has likely got a lot of your personal stake ...

Individual life insurance premiums posted record sales in 2025, says Limra. But 2026 is expected to lag. In a survey covering 85% of the U.S. life insurance market, the Windsor, Conn.-based industry ...

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 ...

RBC Wealth Management—U.S. has added a former UBS team in New Jersey that oversaw $542 million in client assets. The Banks Carter Group, a five-member team, is led by Bill Banks, a managing director, ...

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 ...

Months before Jamie Dimon’s infamous remark about more than one “cockroach” lurking in credit markets, TCW Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Katie Koch warned the direct lending industry was due for ...

The benefits of making contributions to a donor-advised fund include immediate tax deductions, tax-free growth and investment choice. But that doesn’t mean that the funds are a fit for everyone or ...

Female advisors still make up somewhere around only a quarter of the financial advice industry, according to various sources like AdvizorPro and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. And that’s ...

As the GOP-led Congress gears up for the full-court press needed to pass President-elect Trump’s expanded version of his 2017 tax cuts, lawmakers are once again eyeing income caps on individual ...

If you’re considering creating a models-based Unified Managed Account (UMA) program, the single most important question you need to answer is: sleeves or no sleeves? The main case for sleeves is ...

The defining statistic of the so-called K-shaped economy is a little hard to define. According to Moody’s Analytics, the top 10% of Americans by income were responsible for 45.8% of consumer spending ...