With the deal for Portfolio Advisors, FS Investments also gets its hands on a private equity fund that targets both wealth management and institutional clients.
But it hasn't been all wins for the firm's efforts to compete in a market dominated by brokers like Charles Schwab Corp. and Fidelity.
The majority of account holders contributed more to their HSA than they took out in 2021. But only 12% invested their HSAs in assets other than cash.
eMoney Advisor and FP Alpha have tools to help advisors with Roth conversions.
Chair Jerome Powell and fellow policymakers lifted the Fed’s target for its benchmark rate to a range of 4.5% to 4.75%.
An SEC risk alert this week warned firms that surveillance systems fell short in ensuring reps consider costs and reasonably available alternatives. Will enforcement be next?
Smaller firms can still flourish amid the rampant M&A activity, but they need to employ targeted client development and strategic outsourcing.
Legacy Financial Planning has offices in Rochester and Oswego, New York, and Naples, Florida.
The 90-year-old active management complex is launching 12 model portfolios that combine its active mutual funds with ETFs from Schwab, Vanguard and BlackRock.
The pooled employer plan is going live as the Department of Labor's new ESG rule takes effect.
Spitzner spent 25 years in the industry, holding leadership roles at firms including Prudential Investments and Envestnet, before launching Wealth Consulting Partners in 2015.
Over two-thirds of non-retired investors say they may continue working after they retire.
The bill sails through House, 419-0, on a fast track. Its author, Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., hopes the Senate acts this time around.
UBS reported that it had 6,245 financial advisors in the Americas region at the end of last year, little changed from 6,218 at the end of 2021.
Sabra Purtill succeeds Lyons as the insurer's interim CFO, while Turab Hussain was named interim chief actuary.
A legal challenge to the agency's rule on investments in retirement plans was inevitable, lawyers say.
As clients consider whether to relocate once they're retired, here's a ranking that takes into account 47 factors related to each state’s affordability, health care and overall quality of life.
A growing number of defined-contribution retirement plan participants are seeking guaranteed lifetime income products, according to a report from Greenwald Research.
Robert Levitt has traded Florida for the French Riviera, where he sees a wide-open market in the 250,000 Americans living there who need financial advice.
Broker-dealers are falling short in identifying and mitigating conflicts of interest, the agency said.
