Advisors looking to win over clients who have parted ways with their previous advisors should quickly get past why things did not work out and move on to understanding how they can build a ...

Global investment firm Carlyle has completed its majority stake acquisition of MAI Capital Management, which values the Cleveland-based RIA at more than $2.8 billion. The deal, which was announced in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Robert Laura’s book Retirement Intelligence—Personal Retirement Readiness. Did you know that 60% of people who try to escape from prison are caught within the ...

LPL Financial is facing a class-action lawsuit that could test whether advisors have an ongoing duty to warn clients when an insurance company behind an annuity begins to deteriorate. Plaintiff Kerry ...

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 ...

Private equity-backed Arax Investment Partners, a New York wealth and asset management platform, has acquired Pinnacle Peak Private Client Group, an Arizona RIA that manages $460 million in assets.