Tag: RIAs

Total financial adviser headcount continues to decline despite strong asset growth for the advisory industry in recent years, according to Cerulli Associates.

Pershing rolled out the Retirement Plan Network, which aims to help broker/dealers, investment advisers and registered investment advisers (RIAs) expand their retirement business.

Advisers should look to Millennials—even those who haven’t yet become wealthy—as the next promising and uncrowded market, a survey by TD Ameritrade says.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released examination priorities for 2015 in the shortest form ever: just five pages.

Research from Cerulli Associates predicts the combined asset marketshare of independent advisers will surpass that of wirehouse advisers by 2019.

An agreement signed with Pensionmark seals a partnership between the national firm and a St. Paul, Minnesota-based independent advisory practice, SevenHills Benefit Partners.

Many retirees find the retirement life brings more satisfaction and less worry than they anticipated, MassMutual says in a survey report.

Omniscient Enterprise Advisor, a platform designed to help financial advisers and registered independent advisers (RIAs) expand and scale their businesses, was introduced by Omni Alliance Inc.

Advisers can play a big part in helping women cope after the death of a spouse, according to New York Life Insurance Company.

Goss Wealth Management, a four-adviser team led by Jerry Goss, has transitioned to the LPL broker/dealer and hybrid RIA custodial platform.

Advanced Capital Group (ACG), a registered investment advisory firm, is opening an office in Chicago, Illinois.

Markov Processes International (MPI) has released its MPI Stylus Web research system as a mobile application (app) for the iPad, Android and Microsoft Surface tablet devices.

A third of middle class investors are just not saving for retirement, according to Wells Fargo’s fifth annual Middle Class Retirement study.

No one wants to talk about it, but everyone wants to know: How do other retirement plan advisers arrive at a fee for their plans? Here, some advisers...

Adviser expectations for their practice valuations are inflated, compared with actual deals closed in the past 12 months, says global analytics firm Cerulli Associates.

Cafaro Greenleaf, an advisory firm to corporate and institutional retirement plans, hired Walter Ziffer to its team of advisers and consultants.

More than half of independent registered investment advisers (RIA) view technology as a front-office function and a key component for delivering quality client experiences.

Independent retirement plan advisers must leverage third-party service providers to achieve scale and combat business challenges without a large internal support network.

A new Schwab Advisor Services study explores industry attributes that attract professional financial advisers to the registered investment adviser (RIA) profession.

Ranging over a number of factors that impact branding and differentiation, panelists at the 2014 PANC in Orlando, Florida, discussed what builds a retirement plan adviser's brand.