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Carson creates another lure to its W-2 employee channel by spreading equity opportunity beyond the selling founders.

The move for $15 billion Good Life differs from its trickier Commonwealth acquisition, which sources say has recently included bidding against RIA aggregators to keep a team.

New strategies may be required.

What to Do When Collections Outlive Their Owners.

Goldman veterans Kerry Blum and Jean Altier Bohm will co-lead the group designed to centralize existing and new public investment offerings.

KPM Wealth Advisory Group had been with Stifel for 10 years before moving to RBC Wealth.

When every door is open, how do children choose their own paths?

A financial team isn't actually a team until someone steps up to lead it.

Three new surveys show rising housing, healthcare and other everyday costs are forcing many workers to delay retirement savings or stop contributing altogether.

A handful of exchange-traded funds are about to teach American kids about the magic of compound interest. One of them could become a blockbuster.

Trading cold, expensive New York City for lower taxes and warmer weather in Miami was long a no-brainer. No more.

Jim Jessup of Virtus ETF Solutions on navigating active fixed income, arguing product development should focus on manager strengths and durable allocator “levers.”

CEO Mike Durbin says Cetera's approaches for succession planning are picking up pace within the broker/dealer, as well as increasingly with outside firms. In a Wealth Management interview, Durbin also detailed a new bank partnership for the firm.

A recent SEC ruling on dual-class share structures may allow ETFs to overcome operational hurdles that have kept them out of retirement plans for decades.

CEO Thomas Carroll discusses how HB Wealth has grown to a $32 billion RIA despite, and partly due to, founder changes.

And in other news, Envestnet on interval funds research, Vanilla adds concierge services, BondWave enhances trade oversight and SmartRIA introduces AI-driven archiving capabilities.

In a world beset by geopolitical, economic and energy crises, the days of using “gold bug” as an insult are over.

Steward Partners' Scott Danner and Valerie Rivera discuss scaling from $30B to $50B in AUM through strategic acquisitions

In addition, Indivisible Partners adds an $800 million team, and Ameriprise and LPL Financial lure advisors from rival firms.

Advisors overall remain optimistic about financial conditions and the markets, even as a significant percentage see a dimmer future for the U.S. economy.