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New data from The Well Recruiting Solutions reveals advisory firms negotiate away credentials, salary ranges and experience requirements to secure the talent they want.

Also, Kestra Financial hires client service and operations leads; alt-focused Quincy Wells names a CIO; and Toronto-based Verecan Capital adds a CFO as it pushes further into the United States.

Hunter Haithcock will spend over three years in prison for impersonating a TD Ameritrade advisor and defrauding dozens of investors.

Asset managers are doing an about face on outsourcing, seeking to bring more functions in-house. A combo of factors has created an opportunity in muni bond investing. These are among investment must reads for financial advisors this week.

The addition sees Hightower Signature Wealth grow to $40 billion in less than a year through a combination of affiliates and newly acquired firms.

The deal comes shortly after Allworth secured a new investment round from Integrum Holdings while retaining its prior stakeholders, Lightyear Capital and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.

Passive does not always mean diversified.

The Akron-based RIA adds another Minneapolis-St. Paul firm, its first RIA acquisition this year.

iTP Partners, which had been acquired in 2022 into what would become Osaic, has departed for Cetera after speaking with “multiple” broker/dealers.

In new research, industry association Nareit also shows how REITs have performed amid the market volatility stemming from the war in Iran.

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They’re not easy to ask, and it’s on you to get clients into the right mind-frame to answer honestly.

FinCEN, FINRA and CFTC fined the bank’s wealth management division for allegedly failing to fix problems with foreign-currency wire monitoring and customer due diligence from 2019 to 2023.

President Rob TeKolste will take over as CEO from Esfand Dinshaw in 2027 at the insurer that owns $10 billion RIA Wealthcare and $12 billion Northrock Partners.

Despite rapid growth to an estimated $30 billion to $40 billion, PEPs face headwinds including advisor reluctance, control concerns and conflicts that may limit adoption.

Everyone is using AI. Not everyone is using it well.

VistaShares' Adam Patti discusses how ETF innovation is bringing institutional-style strategies to retail investors, emphasizing “look under the hood” due diligence.

Invesco's Karl Desmond breaks down how advisors work with both pre-built and custom model portfolios.

The wealth management industry has been living with a toothache. AI just made it a medical emergency.

Also, merchant bank Valeon hires a managing director from Houlihan Lokey, Verdence brings on a financial planning head, and Credent Wealth adds AssetMark’s CEO to its board.