09/03/2014

Serving the Merely Affluent

Wealth managers fight to win the business of people with $1 million or more, but pay considerably less attention to the merely affluent.

09/02/2014

How Accounting Firms Become Family Offices

These days many accounting services are considered commodities; there are more competitors vying for the same business with no discernible difference between offerings and consistent downward pressure on fees in order to attract new revenue.

08/28/2014

Helping High-Net Worth Clients With Charitable Giving

Once accomplished individuals, including CEOs, business owners or high-profile athletes and entertainers, achieve a certain level of success there inevitably comes a time when they begin to ask themselves, ‘What’s next?’

08/26/2014

Morgan Stanley managers depart amid reorg

A number of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management directors have left the firm amid a reorganization of the managed-accounts unit and streamlining of operations

08/25/2014

Dementia: The Growing Retirement Risk

“It came on fairly quickly,” Gutzke, a wealth management advisor in the high-net-worth unit of Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank, says of his once-sharp client.

08/21/2014

$450M Advisory Firm Network Joins LPL

LPL Financial LLC, the nations largest independent broker/dealer, an RIA custodian, and a wholly owned subsidiary of LPL Financial Holdings Inc., today announced that Financial Advocacy Network has joined the LPL Financial broker-dealer and RIA custodial