Practice Management

The CFP Board is creating a new entity to advance financial planning as a career; separately, Broadridge’s Fi360 is funding 100 investing certifications for women and people of color.

New research shows an opening for advisers to offer wealth management solutions to savers. An expert in adviser communications says it’s important to know the business, and people, that you want to be your clients.

Employers are leveraging NQDCs for retention use at increasing rates, with 30% having a noncompete provision.

Milken Institute report argues for enhancing DEI in the finance industry, lays out strategies. 

As advisers seek more participant personalization from retirement recordkeepers, they also need to ramp up their focus on cybersecurity from providers, according to industry participants.

While new research finds recordkeepers took the lead for overall rollover count in 2022, IRA providers outside of employer retirement plans kept their dominance for accounts of $250,000 or more.

41% of advisers told Broadridge they generated clients through social media, up from 34% in 2019.

Online brokerage Robinhood’s head of investment management left a 21-year career at J.P. Morgan to reach a wider population of American investors. She’s getting the chance with an IRA aimed at the gig economy.

Retirement advisers may need to counsel on a 23% reduction in Social Security benefits within the next decade if the government doesn’t act on the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office.

Pooled employer plans are still a nascent offering in the retirement market, but an increasing number of advisers want them available as an option and discussion point—even if they’re not recommending them.

Insurance outsourcing firm RetireOne partners with Nationwide on annuities for investment advisers. But recent research brings into question just how much advisers want to talk annuities with clients.

Expectations for RIA valuations and M&A activity reach lowest levels in five years of annual surveying by DeVoe & Company.

There are numerous student loan debt assistance and benefit options that advisers can bring to employers, according to a panel of experts who met last week. 

As retirement planning and wealth management begin to overlap, a dividing line must be drawn between them for both business and compliance reasons, according to a panel of experts in PLANADVISER’s latest practice management webinar.

Firms offering low-cost smaller company retirement plans say business is booming despite market volatility, but opinions are mixed on how impactful SECURE 2.0 would be for small business uptake.

Small-to-medium-sized businesses are increasingly turning to nonqualified deferred compensation plans amid a competitive market, according to data and industry players.

Rob Grubka of Voya has had his role expanded to oversee workplace solutions, encompassing all benefits and savings businesses. He tells PLANADVISER the combined position is a natural progression to meet evolving employer needs.

Of plan sponsors with full employee participation, 80% work with an adviser to help design and manage their 401(k) benefit, according to new research from Morgan Stanley at Work.

A DCIIA report written by industry players looks at how rising interest rates and inflation are cutting into common retirement income tactics, as well as the new tools generating interest among plan fiduciaries and sponsors.