When I was on an airplane recently, I saw a 2-year-old trying to make the picture on the TV screen bigger by swiping her fingers across the screen. She wasn’t quite sure why it didn’t work the way she was accustomed to. Futurists have all sorts o...

When I think back to where I was in the late 1980s, some memories feel like a lifetime ago, while others are as fresh as if they happened yesterday. I can vividly recall sitting at the trading desk of an investment advisory firm, learning as much...

Change and Opportunity

At Raymond James annual Women’s Symposium last week, women advisors met to share ideas and stories on how to succeed in the business today, touching on themes like the need to build confidence, help each other be successful, lean in and...

Middle-Class Financial Advice

As part of our #FiduciaryFriday series this month, we asked the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard's Knut Rostad to provide his thoughts on where the Securities and Exchange Commission's fiduciary efforts stand. Rostad finds there is a...

As part of our #FiduciaryFriday series this month, we asked TD Ameritrade Institutional's Skip Schweiss to provide his thoughts on the Labor Department's fiduciary rulemaking efforts. He has a very simple response to brokers...

John Hailer says the federal government should not mandate a preference for passive index funds

As part of our #FiduciaryFriday series this month, we asked Ron Rhoades to provide his thoughts on where the Labor Department's fiduciary rulemaking efforts stand. But Rhoades envisions a dark future for the industry if...

Power Shifts