Once a firm of registered reps, RIA expands to serve mass affluent in Boise and Salt Lake City

Real estate brokers, forensic accountants, career consultants and clergymen can all make lucrative allies

Automated advice is making a bigger dent but the personal touch is favored by a wide margin

Companies as diverse as First Union, Vestmark, Schwab, Goldman Sachs, [now] Accenture and Sciens Capital have fingerprints on this fast-riser

State securities regulators, SEC issue first solid answers on some commonly asked questions for 4,000 advisors in limbo

In automating wealth management, Dick Smith chose Adhesion and needed custody

At an exclusive think-tank style conference on the Potomac, industry leaders heard the psychology behind investors' rosy view of the world.

Boston-based custodian is on service crusade and economics need to work

Fewer wirehouse brokers are fleeing for their own firms, but recruitment-minded RIAs are still joining the list

The companies promise 'bi-directional' integration

SEC announced time frame for proposed rules

iShares slip and a new, three-way fight for an expanding pie develops

DiMarco cautions that a firm's ROI can be imperiled during the intense process

Medium-sized event in San Francisco hosts feisty RIAs

Wirehouses may buy and sell parts to protect their golden egg-laying investment banking franchises

A Colorado advisor who oversold hedge funds may pay a price

After a broken engagement slowed its progress, the company is on a buying spree

The buy-local movement helps independent advisors, say experts -- if they are smart enough to market

Long a favorite for the small RIA, its spiffier reports and early admission in Schwab's grand technology plan give it a bigger future

Deal-related consulting fits a core strategic objective -- RIA growth

Merrilll Lynch's odd ducks are the independent world's $400 million AUM swans

In pressure cooker of Washington, D.C., nothing looks certain, especially after Tea Party wins

PlaceMark deal modifies unified managed account platform so advisors can plug in their former wrap managers

Expert at tiding over mutual funds with spare cash, San Francisco financier needs its own angels for bigger growth

Annuity producers, online brokers and JPMorgan pay up to get attention of affluent tennis fans

Retirees outside the U.S. may be in a particularly good position to capitalize

The Santa Monica-based fund company is certain as ever of its mission -- and even more successful

A conference of experts from academia, industry will examine how the fiduciary standard could work in a brokerage business

Jefferson National calls the deal with Dimensional Fund Advisors a 'home run'

RIAs steer parents clear of the high-fee 529-plan bandwagon

The unforeseen pitfalls of “staying short” with your client’s fixed income allocation

Matt Robinson joins for a semester after stint at Bloomberg Businessweek

XML's team turned down two buyout offers and faced down a lawsuit to build a top firm near Washington, D.C.

The account aggregation company impressed new VC firm with high growth and sunny prospects

Envestnet has already wired deals that will add $8 billion of assets in the fourth quarter alone, according to the report

Shareholders Service Group gives its 700 RIAs access to Envestnet's services

How individual investors and RIAs can tap into a time-tested strategy supported by almost two decades of academic research

New Hampshire-based software maker competes with a lower price and an easy-to-use interface

Brian Hamburger is gaining momentum with his MarketCounsel events in the wake of Chip Roame's long-term success

Value investing is a casualty of about systemic risk related to high-frequency trading

The investment banking brand was preeminent until it got purchased and the M&A market tanked

ADV Part 2 form calls for clear language, and detailed descriptions even of the people working for you

A note from the team

For the first time in history, the majority of advisory compensation comes from fees; plus 9 other findings from one of the year's most ambitious surveys

How debt played a role in the stock market's rise and why we are not yet delveraging