Gone are the days of deciding whether financial planning should be offered, said executives. Today, the decision worth considering is how to charge for it.

Channel-based messaging platform Slack will be rolled out to LPL Financial's 17,000 advisors, allowing teams to communicate faster than with email.

The advisors leave one of the broker/dealers folded into Securities America in the wake of Advisor Group’s acquisition of Ladenburg Thalmann.

LPL Financial's head of national sales and consulting, Andy Kalbaugh, will retire at the end of the first quarter 2021.

The advisors at Equitrust Financial Group felt it would be in clients’ best interest to affiliate with a publicly traded b/d with self-clearing capabilities.

Risk metrics are only part of the picture at Riskalyze, as the firm pushes deeper into trading and portfolio management.

Scott Belous moves from TD Ameritrade's retail brokerage to lead LPL Financial's efforts to improve the end user experience.

Bialke Financial Partners has joined Financial Resources Group Investment Services, one of LPL’s large offices of supervisory jurisdiction, and the team will operate as the investment arm of American Bank of the North.

San Diego-based advisors Scott Dudley and David McQuade align with Financial Advocates, one of LPL Financial’s largest offices of supervisory jurisdiction.

LPL believes the new model addresses some of the pain points that exist among employee advisors, such as surety of their payout, owning the client relationship, the actual payout grid and the tax treatment of the sale of a practice.