Financial advisors looking to propel their business to the multi-million dollar status need to take one piece of advice from four female advisors who have already gotten there: learn when to turn new clients away.

A former Bank of America Merrill Lynch financial advisor and one other individual were hit with a federal criminal complaint that they fraudulently wired $2.2 million from an account of NFL player Dwight Freeney.

Women describe themselves as more conservative investors who favor socially and environmentally responsible...

Consistency, stability and a steady hand. That s what the best branch managers offer in a world fraught with financial uncertainty and the specter of regulatory overhaul. On Wall Street and New York Life/MainStay Investments...

Wealth management firms are still gradually introducing their financial advisor forces to social media, but three years from now they fully expect the new medium to have fully taken hold in the industry.

Watching this market close in on upside targets is like watching a movie I have seen before. Some readers want to know where to find dividend income now that the Fed has committed to low rates until 2014. Money market funds...

Watching this market close in on upside targets is like watching a movie I have seen before. Some readers want to know where to find dividend income now that the Fed has committed to low rates until 2014. Money market funds...

Financial research firm Cerulli Associates issued a fairly dire projection for the share of assets wirehouse firms will have come 2013 in a new report released on Wednesday, even as those same firms are expected to remain the...

Our annual recruiters roundtable: dissatisfaction in the ranks and the end of blind loyalty translates into advisors on the move.

Before the Department of Labor rewrites its proposal to redefine fiduciary responsibility — a new proposal is expected in the first half of 2012 — there are three changes SIFMA would like to see in the rulemaking process, said...

So-called sympathy pricing, or discounting, of transactional trades runs rampant in the full-service brokerage industry, says Patrick Kennedy, co-founder and VP, product and technology, for the intelligence-solutions firm PriceMetrix.

Cheating on a financial advisor is a known, but frowned-upon client practice. But new research says that it has been gaining traction among high-net-worth households since the market turmoil began in 2008, with many clients...

BOSTON -- Top economists who spoke here at the Insured Retirement Institute annual conference told attendees to brace for fundamental paradigm shifts as they wait for global and domestic economies to stabilize. Gross domestic...

Three programs within RBC Wealth Management have catapulted the firm to No. 1 in customer satisfaction.

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hope, but no plans." —Peter Drucker There have been numerous articles in financial journals over recent years addressing the importance of succession planning for advisors.

Nobel prize laureate/author of Thinking, Fast and Slow discusses the book and how it can be applied to financial...