The standard is upheld but the people-with-muscle caveat is a true victory for investors, according to Tamar Frankel

Morton Capital Management gets referrals from both Schwab and a local bank that acquired it

Stagnant for more than a decade, the Boston-based RIA custodian has become a cauldron of dynamic change in last few years

The Rhode Island RIA keeps up the legal battle to clarify the size of his firm's equity stake

In four-day span in early March, seven companies joined

Heather takes a close look at how Fugent has pieced together a pioneering effort

The news giant snags a Schwab employee and looks to expand its mission

Multi-custody arrangements and third party platforms can lead to troublesome data fragmentation, the Boston custody giant says

One Denver advisory association looks to the other for hires but the two organizations profess peace

Big Virginia RIA sees an opportunity in wirehouse fumbling and he's grabbing it

A San Diego-based company gives a peek behind the curtain of many of the 60,000 largest defined contribution plans

The Seattle-based RIA is looking to grow investment capabilities without adding staff

Two MIT grads do the math for clients, including numbers that show 401(k)s lacking

Everything from New York Times recognition to accelerating executive hires suggest the RIA realm is getting hot

Why some Washingtonians are wrong about the bill's prospects

Some tax increases kick in next year

Observers need a scorecard to keep track of all the advances that RIAs are making

Third-party rankings misleading without the context; here's how to give it

New oversight for financial planners may be tougher for Senators to vote against because it is seen as pro-consumer

If NFP IndeSuite catches on, the success could make up for some struggles on the roll-up side of the business

Steve Utkus suggests a flaw in BrightScope's system and Ryan Alfred is having none of it

One pioneer on how she sees her market -- hint: it's not a monolith

Advisors who never considered outsourcing see it in a different light today

The Omaha-based portfolio management outsourcer is winning on service and innovation

The Omaha-based portfolio management outsourcer sees potential in co-opting social media methods

Huebner and Jagger are winding up, not down with multi-faceted growth strategy

Senate and house bills now both seek to wrest 75% of RIAs away from SEC oversight

The proposal is a 'devastating grant of authority to the SEC to write the rules'

Maggie Serravalli is aiming for service quality consistency

Karen Lisowski will work from San Francisco

Eric Clarke's Omaha company has wedged its way into the RIA consciousness with good reason

Rehmann Financial loves the AIG subsidiary's alliance with Pershing

Signing up is simple and firms can market their eagerness to recruit talent

The popular savings vehicle may be structured for bad performance

Mike Durbin folds sales and relationship management together and two veterans depart

New board promoting the fiduciary standard would oversee 75,000

Taking the attitude that any client with $25 million is a good client leads to trouble

Silicon Valley RIA practice hopes that Steve Bono can jump start its $4 billion practice

The Jersey City RIA custodian believes a defined list of criteria gives it an edge

Until hard questions are asked, people default to the old answers

Consumer-protection regulations rarely get stiffer in the legislative process

Yesterday's article in respected newspaper shows brokers themselves make no pretense about putting the client first

The big TAMP launched a national team in January to help independent broker-dealers

The feisty CEO of Pershing's RIA unit believes his offering will speak to big RIAs

With brokers disqualified, fee-only advisors may have 'phenomenal' opportunity to dominate $4.1 trillion IRA market

SIFMA cries foul on the basis that such regulations would reduce people's access to retirement plans

Veteran reporter brings knowledge and experience to complex regulatory issues

The former sales chief believes he is wiser after being away for six years

California entrepreneur and NSA star are among the top draws

The former head of sales will assume many of Barnaby Grist's duties

Eat-what-you-kill mentality won't take a company to the next level

The mutual fund and ETF question gets looked at from a regulatory standpoint

Neil Simon: Supporters of a strict fiduciary standard can prevail with an effective end game