Wealth.com launches estate planning event for advisors

Financial advisors seeking to bring more tax-related services to their wealth management businesses could get a…

FPA: Mutual fund wrap programs gain popularity with advisors

Financial planning involves a lot of elements. For a growing share of advisors, managing investments isn’t…

Tips for financial advisors to grow their business

Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. A good advisor…

How Advisors Can Better Serve the LGBTQ+ Community

The LGBTQ+ community in the U.S. represents a growing economic force, with an estimated $1.4 trillion…

FPA Survey Shows Alternative Investments Use Rise Among Financial Advisors

The share of financial planners scaling up their use of alternative investments over the past year…

Understanding the 7 Losses in Change Management for Financial Advisors

Change is an inevitable part of life, and while it often brings excitement and opportunity, it…

Financial advisors use second languages as a planning niche

Advisors often carve out niches by focusing on unique client groups, from tech start-up millennials to…

Should Financial Advisors Pursue Funds That Combine Public and Private Assets?

Over the past year, the alternative investment universe witnessed the emergence of a new type of…

Save Advisors Launches Market-Based Savings Program for RIAs

Save Advisors, a Houston-based subsidiary of markets-based savings startup Save, has introduced an FDIC-backed savings option…

How departing financial advisors can avoid lawsuits

This story is the third in a series Financial Planning Chief Correspondent Tobias Salinger is writing…

Mercer Global Advisors Acquires Full Sail Capital, Expands in Oklahoma

Mercer Global Advisors, one of the nation’s largest and most acquisitive registered investment advisors with $71…

FP Alpha Enhances AI-Driven Estate Planning Tool for Financial Advisors

FP Alpha, a New York-based wealth tech platform for tax, estate and insurance planning, has released…

A Critical Opportunity for Financial Advisors

With the status of Medicare a lightning rod for attention as the budget and tax legislation…

PE-Backed Arax Investment Partners Acquires Schechter Investment Advisors

Arax Investment Partners, a wealth management platform backed by private equity firm RedBird Capital Partners, has…

Trump’s tax bill offers wins, and a major loss, for advisors

Groups representing the wealth management industry are celebrating after the House narrowly passed a Republican-backed tax…

Commonwealth Financial Network Offers AI Notetaker Zocks to Advisors

Commonwealth Financial Network’s 2,900 independent advisors now have access to the AI notetaking technology Zocks, if…

AI Advisors vs Human Soft Skills

(Bloomberg Opinion) — The wealth management industry is prepared to court its newest potential clients: Gen…

What 150 independent advisors wanted from their tech stack

RIA leaders who have done things the same way for their whole careers often don’t want…

When should financial advisors leave a wirehouse

This story is the second in a series Financial Planning Chief Correspondent Tobias Salinger is writing…

Simon Quick Advisors stays free of PE with latest deal

Chris Moore of Simon Quick Advisors doesn’t think there’s necessarily anything wrong with accepting private equity…

6 Questions on Advisors’ Minds

Gene Goldman, Cetera’s chief investment officer, discusses the markets and investing throughout the year to clients…

Will advisors add AI avatars to their communication toolkit?

In the middle of the frame sits a bespectacled gentleman, facing the screen. Behind him, the…