Perhaps one should avoid the temptation to use house metaphors when describing something like an RIA business. And yet. Like your house, your advisory firm has likely got a lot of your personal stake ...

Beginning almost 20 years ago, an obscure advisor in El Cajon, Calif., published a series of papers defining sustainable withdrawal rates from retirement portfolios. Based on a historical ...

Ken Griffin is pointing an outstretched arm toward his field of dreams. On this Wednesday afternoon in early February, the CEO of Citadel, one of the world’s largest and most profitable hedge funds, ...

As the head of financial and economic research at Buckingham Wealth Partners for almost 30 years, one of the most common situations I’ve been asked to address is about clients with a heavily ...

Time, money and competition put pressure on RIA owners to be decisive, but taking action can be hard without assurances of success, and it can be reckless to act on gut instinct. To compete, advisors ...

For a profession that is half a century old, the financial advice business is still troubled by certain frustrations. Near the top of that list is the fact that, unlike medicine and law, the ...

According to experts, one of the main selling points for annuities is that they can provide a sort of personal pension that cannot be outlived. No other investment can make that claim. Yet the ...

Rob Granieri took to the dance floor with long hair flowing from his fedora, shiny jacket glinting and a boutonnière bursting with color. The wealthy recluse showed off his moves after platters of ...

CFPs who sell annuities are subject to a tougher fiduciary standard, as well as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) suitability model regulation, the CFP Board said in new guide ...

Financial advisors worried about client retention amid the great wealth transfer are getting a bit of bad news from a recent study: A new wealth report released by Capgemini’s Research Institute found ...

Andre El-Baba never imagined an investment fund could trap him. A lifelong property manager from Vancouver, he’d spent decades navigating real estate markets and thought he understood risk. So when he ...

The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced the Securities and Exchange Commission’s power to recover illegal profits in a case that centered on one of the agency’s most potent enforcement tools. The justices ...