Advisors
News updates, trends and analysis on financial advisors, investment advisors (RIAs), and financial planners (CFPs).
Standing Up for Advisors' Independent Contractor Status
By Dale E. BrownThe PRO Act, being considered by the U.S. Senate, would impose a stringent worker classification test on indie advisors.
June 28, 2021
Putnam Names New Co-CIO of Global Asset AllocationBrett Goldstein and his co-chief investment officer, Robert Schoen, will be responsible for strategy and positioning of GAA products.
June 28, 2021
Investment Advisor Industry Grows for 9th Consecutive YearTotal SEC-registered advisors, clients served, assets managed and people they employed reached record highs in 2020.
June 25, 2021
Investors Prefer Advisors Similar to Them: SurveyFinancial advisory firms must address the disconnect between what the industry looks like and changing demographics, a survey has found.
June 25, 2021
Jamie Hopkins: How a Capital Gains Tax Hike Will Affect AdvisorsThe proposed tax increase will have a major impact on advisors who plan to sell their firms, Carson Group's managing partner of wealth solutions says.
June 25, 2021
How to Become the Advisory Firm of the FutureNow is the time to "rethink the way work happens and where it happens," Altair Advisers' CEO says.
June 24, 2021
Envestnet's Dani Fava: Why Entry of Apple, Amazon Into Finance Would Be Good for AdvisorsThese firms are positioned to "finally get into our space and really disrupt it," but that's not bad news, she says.
June 24, 2021
Pushed by Pandemic, $842M Merrill Team Leaps to Raymond JamesWorking from home, "we felt that it was finally a good time for us to revisit what we want our business to look like," the team's managing director says.