Conestoga Capital Advisors Q2 2025 Commentary (Mutual Fund:CCASX)

bombermoon/iStock via Getty Images Market Review The market began the second quarter on its heels, with…

More Advisors Affiliating With RIA Consolidators

As mergers and acquisitions activity in the registered investment advisor space continues to break records, the…

Advisors Strategies to Navigate Market Volatility

We’ve made it to the halfway point of 2025, which has already introduced new opportunities, considerations…

Financial Advisors Face Succession Planning Challenges as Retirement Looms

Advisors often—and repeatedly—cite the benefits of long-term planning with their clients, a hallmark of any financial…

With CE ‘free,’ what’s the real conference ROI for advisors?

If you’ve ever stared at a crowded inbox full of invites to wealth management conferences, you’ve…

Judge Orders Review of LPL Advisors Devices in Ameriprise Client Data Dispute

A federal judge ordered that nearly 30 financial advisors who moved from Ameriprise to LPL and…

The Key to Elevating 401(k) Advisors in a Booming DC System

Defined contribution plans in the U.S. have been a raging success and are the envy of…

AARP launches Dementia Hub to help financial advisors

Financial advisors and wealth management firms have new resources from AARP designed to help them prepare…

Opportunity Zone Program Becomes Permanent, Giving Advisors Certainty on Tax Breaks

Among the many provisions in the massive One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed into law this…

J.D. Power Study Finds 46% of Financial Advisors Plan to Retire by 2035

J.D. Power’s annual financial advisor survey adds to the drumbeat of analysts predicting a “talent crisis”…

Wells Fargo gets $16B in help from bank advisors

Advisors in Wells Fargo’s bank branches helped bring in $16 billion in new assets in the…

Hightower Advisors Hires Former Osaic Executive as Chief Advisory Officer

Hightower Advisors is poaching a former Osaic executive to serve in the newly created chief advisory…

Federal retirements hit new highs as advisors brace for more

A sharp rise in federal retirements, coupled with an expected wave of more government layoffs, is…

Ex-Commonwealth Advisors Join Arkadios, Cambridge, Osaic, Raymond James

The anticipated attrition of at least some Commonwealth Financial Advisors in the wake of LPL Financial’s…

4 in 10 advisors are concerned about AI replacing them

Around four in 10 advisors are at least moderately concerned about aspects of their role being…

There Is No Such Thing as a Summer Lull for Financial Advisors

Financial advisors often anticipate that their clients will take the summer off or at the very…

The Dilemma Facing Financial Advisors in 2025

Here’s a fun summer hypothetical: Imagine you’re lying by the pool, 80 degrees and sunny, nice…

Commonwealth loses a few advisors ahead of LPL deal

As LPL Financial’s purchase of Commonwealth Financial Network nears, a steady trickle of advisors are leaving…

Why direct indexing is gaining ground with some advisors

On one end of the spectrum is passive investing; on the other, active. And somewhere in…

How financial advisors should pick an RIA custodian

This is the eighth installment in a Financial Planning series by Chief Correspondent Tobias Salinger on…

Schwab Grows Institutional No Transaction Fee Fund Offering for Independent Advisors

WESTLAKE, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Schwab Advisor Services™ has increased its institutional no transaction fee (INTF) mutual fund…

Merit Financial Advisors Sells Minority Stake to Constellation Wealth Capital

Merit Financial Advisors, a registered investment advisor with $19.94 billion in total client assets, has agreed…