IBD Elite 2025: 4 growth trends for independent wealth firms

As a channel of wealth management that generates more business than some countries, the firms of…

UBS loses $1.6B advisor team to LPL Financial

UBS advisors keep heading to the exits following the firm’s recent compensation changes, with a prominent…

IBD Elite 2025: Fastest growing independent brokerages

In a year of substantial growth for the independent brokerage channel of wealth management, these 10…

Key factors for financial advisors considering OSJs

This is the 15th installment in a Financial Planning series by Chief Correspondent Tobias Salinger on…

Advisors appeal judge’s order in Ameriprise-LPL dispute

A recruiting dispute between LPL Financial and Ameriprise is moving into appellate court as advisors formally…

LPL turns to AI to crack financial advisor pay questions

Of all the tangled financial skeins advisors have to unravel, some of the most complicated can…

IBD Elite 2025: The 15 largest independent brokerages

The largest independent brokerages reaped the benefits of rising asset values and consolidation last year. Those…

IBD Elite 2025: How independent wealth firms use AI

The extent to which independent financial advisors are using artificial intelligence is only starting to catch…

LPL CEO not surprised by Commonwealth departures

Just a day before his firm’s completed purchase of Commonwealth Financial Network, LPL CEO Rich Steinmeier…

J.D. Power’s 2025 financial advisor satisfaction rankings

One of the most closely watched report cards in the fight to recruit and retain financial…

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…

Former Citadel quants Raise $36 million for fixed-income fintech

Moment, a financial-technology company founded by former Citadel Securities quantitative traders and researchers, raised $36 million…

Atria layoffs shed light on LPL’s M&A strategies

Even as LPL commits to keeping Commonwealth Financial Network mostly intact after buying it later this…

Commonwealth recruits big team ahead of LPL purchase

Commonwealth Financial Network’s looming acquisition by LPL Financial isn’t halting its recruiting engines, as evidenced this…

LPL Financial pushes brand with Anna Kendrick ads

Independent broker-dealers have long been content to remain known quantities inside the industry while allowing their…

LPL Financial drops suit accusing Ameprise of defamation

LPL Financial is dropping a defamation suit it filed nearly two months ago against Ameriprise over…

LPL CEO not worried about rivals for Commonwealth advisors

LPL CEO Rich Steinmeier has seen the offers other firms are making to Commonwealth Financial advisors…

Stock Market on Track to Erases Losses From Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariff Rollout

Stocks were on track on Friday to erase their losses from the days after President Trump’s…