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NEWS RIAS APR 28, 2014
Finding originality in financial services in a sea of copycats

It is very hard to stand out in such an overwhelmingly cluttered market place. Here's some of Joe Duran's strategies for success.

By Joe Duran
NEWS RIAS APR 25, 2014
Creating clear career path critical to attracting NextGen advisers

Fidelity is even broadening its recruiting efforts to high school students

By Trevor Hunnicutt
NEWS RIAS APR 21, 2014
Mariner snaps up New York advisory firm with $780M in assets

Deal brings the firm's assets under management to $8.2 billion

By Trevor Hunnicutt
NEWS RIAS APR 18, 2014
Midwestern Mariner sails into the Northeast with acquisition

Mariner Wealth Advisors gains majority stake in New Jersey firm with $817M in assets.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
NEWS RIAS APR 18, 2014
Too much of a good thing? What to do when clients are addicted to wealth

When the need to accumulate money becomes an investor's sole preoccupation, chances are it is a case of "wealth addiction." Find out how advisers have steered clients back from the brink to healthier lifestyles.

By Liz Skinner
NEWS RIAS APR 18, 2014
Why the client segmentation model is outdated and should be replaced

Client segmentation may make business sense, but it defies common client-servicing sense

By Megan Carpenter
NEWS RIAS APR 18, 2014
Advisers' enemy: Time management

Firm owners need to learn to delegate tasks and take advantage of workflow efficiency.

By Liz Skinner
NEWS RIAS APR 18, 2014
How to attract prospects who are right under your nose

Elusive new prospects are closer than you think – two advisers find success incorporating hobbies and COI.

By Liz Skinner
NEWS RIAS APR 17, 2014
The new rules of adviser compensation

Tibergien, Palaveev, Pomering Reveal Benchmarking Best Practices at InvestmentNews/Moss Adams Event

By John Sullivan
NEWS RIAS APR 16, 2014
A four-way duel among robo-adviser biz models: Which is best?

Breaking down the big categories of online financial advice including what they offer and how much it costs.

By mkitces
NEWS RIAS APR 16, 2014
Using digital potholes to slow the pace of high-frequency traders

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Fighting technology with technology. Plus: Know your ETF or don't invest, how not to advise clients, a pyramid to financial success, biotech on the rebound, and Russia addresses meat shortage with the Easter turkey

By Jeff Benjamin
NEWS RIAS APR 14, 2014
Envestnet aggressively taking market share from wirehouses

CEO says majority of high net worth clients will move toward independent advisers

By Jeff Benjamin
NEWS RIAS APR 11, 2014
Who's afraid of the bad big bank?

If you've got at least $100 million in net worth, the folks at Wells Fargo would like to put on a show for you and your heirs.

By Aaron Elstein
NEWS RIAS APR 10, 2014
Focus Financial adds $600M RIA from Louisiana

Summit Financial deal is ninth transaction of the year for Focus.

By Mason Braswell
NEWS RIAS APR 10, 2014
Fidelity wants to get advisers into the 401(k) game

Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services wants to help them make a concerted push into plan advising

By Trevor Hunnicutt
NEWS RIAS APR 10, 2014
Largest fee-only RIA's fourth-quarter profit shot up 43%

Financial Engines' results buoyed by strong markets and growing DC assets.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
NEWS RIAS APR 10, 2014
Hearsay Social adds RBC to its client list

Startup is collaborating with LinkedIn to help firms' social-media presence

By Trevor Hunnicutt
NEWS RIAS APR 10, 2014
One-third of advisers plan to exit business within a decade

Cerulli study: A succession partner is biggest hurdle for 32% of advisers eyeing retirement.

By Andrew Leigh
NEWS RIAS APR 10, 2014
Live! From TD Ameritrade Institutional: With money now – and more to come – Gen X and Y are ripe for advice

There are 2.18 million investors under 50 with $500,000 in their pockets.

By Liz Skinner
NEWS RIAS APR 10, 2014
Southwest Securities could be sold to big shareholder

The parent company of Southwest Securities, SWS Group, received $7-a-share offer from Hilltop Holdings. The offer was a 16% premium to the stock's closing price on Thursday. Bruce Kelly has the story.

By Bruce Kelly