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, ...

The world can remain stuck in place for a decade and change more in one year than the past 10. The 2020 pandemic served as an accelerant for all the major trends influencing the RIA business for 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A publicly-traded private credit fund managed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. put two additional companies on non-accrual status in the first quarter, as the industry grapples with mounting concerns over ...

Despite a worldwide pandemic, the investment advisor industry experienced record-breaking growth in 2020, growing to 14,000 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registered investment advisers ...

I recently had the privilege to participate in a webinar held in conjunction with Financial Advisor magazine's Invest in Women Virtual event. The discussion gave me the opportunity to talk about one ...