Practice Management

A new study finds that just 11% of Millennial retirement plan participants feel comfortable managing their investments themselves—yet many in the generation hesitate to pursue advice. 

Today, advisers are spending equal amounts of time on social media and networking.

Digging into investment prospectuses and market data is only a part of what financial advisers do for retirement plan clients; perhaps it’s time to rethink what they call...

New data suggests that financial advisers focused more on client management than on investment management see much stronger asset growth and retention. 

The company is keeping other aspects of its response to the rule under wraps for now, including operating and product modifications likely to be required on the institutional...

Enterprise-level adviser technology providers are just fine with winning new business behind the scenes; two industry executives explain why “traditional advisory firms” should embrace them. 

Internal investment product wholesalers are pursuing advanced degrees and designations to improve their image as “knowledge partners” in the eyes of advisers, according to new Cerulli Associates research.

 

More than half of broker/dealers surveyed by the LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute believe some of their advisers will retire rather than sell under the new.

Research shows fewer than one-third of adviser firms have defined a formal plan in the case of an unexpected death or disability.

Most advisers feel they are making good progress on addressing the Department of Labor fiduciary rule, according to a Nationwide Retirement Institute survey.

Advisers have been in a “constant state of flux,” according to a quarterly Fidelity survey, but they are also “making sense of the range of short- and medium-term...

A confluence of generational, technological and consumer preference trends is driving a sea change in the traditional investment advisory business, according to J.D. Power researchers. 

AssetMark is out with a new analysis of advisory practices with AUM growing 20% or more each year.

Financial advisers of the future will have to cope with serving a workforce that is much more mobile and does not necessarily spend much time tethered to a...

Could Google one day be a top provider of investments or financial advice? What about Facebook, or Amazon? 

New research from State Street Corporation finds a majority of asset managers believe they’ll be using “blockchain” data security technologies within five years. So, what’s blockchain? 

High-performing advisers at the J.P. Morgan DC Summit in New York widely hope the government will make retirement savings mandatory for at least some segments of the working...

The strongest-performing advisers are leading the way on aggressive plan design, embracing re-enrollment, stretching the match and making sure plans work for participants as they’re designed to. 

Reflecting the change in their own clients’ expectations, more financial advisers say they prefer to receive general thought leadership and market commentary from service provider partners, in lieu...

It’s a simple formula that keeps more than half of advisers primarily targeting Baby Boomers: They have the most money saved and are the most in need of...