In the world of professional services, where you are dealing with marketing, selling, and servicing intangible financial solutions, it isn’t all that helpful to think in terms of tangible products, be they luxury goods or basic consumer...
Once the Securities and Exchange Commission officially defines the term “family office” (and it took the first step in that direction yesterday, 12 Oct.), the floodgates may open for registered investment advisors to capture a chunk of...
Changes to cost-basis law will present challenges for the brokerage community.
How to ask for feedback and what to do when you get it.
Rose Greene Financial Services, LPL Financial, Santa Monica, Calif.
Attention financial advisors: The pockets of your female clients are getting deeper. But some of them are not happy with your service.
This year's list represents top independent registered investment advisories that primarily do retail fee-only financial planning, as ranked by assets.
Mergers and acquisitions might be crawling back to the top of RIA principals' to-do lists this year as the first quarter's numbers show record activity. There were 24 M&A deals among Schwab RIAs during the first quarter of 2010. That's a record...
Today Stifel Financial Corp., the St.Louis-based financial services holding company, said it is buying Thomas Weisel Partners Group, a San Francisco-based investment bank, in a deal valued at more than $300 million
Mergers and acquisitions seem to be crawling back to the top of RIA principals’ to-do lists this year, as the first quarter’s numbers show record activity. What is your financial advisory practice worth?
