The Covid-19 pandemic unleashed not only death and disruption but economic contradiction: a K-shaped recovery of haves and have-nots. Parts of the economy cratered while other parts, especially in ...

Perhaps one should avoid the temptation to use house metaphors when describing something like an RIA business. And yet. Like your house, your advisory firm has likely got a lot of your personal stake ...

Private equity-backed Arax Investment Partners, a New York wealth and asset management platform, has acquired Pinnacle Peak Private Client Group, an Arizona RIA that manages $460 million in assets.

My friend Kai Wu, host of “The Intangible Economy” podcast and manager of Sparkline Capital’s Intangible Value ETFs ITAN and DTAN, interviewed financial historian Edward Chancellor, who has spent a ...

Client and advisor turnover is surging to unprecedented levels at many of the nation’s leading RIA firms. And one can’t help but notice that the recent exodus of advisors and clients is occurring ...

The matriarch of the billionaire Schottenstein family has been awarded $19 million by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for illegal trading in her accounts by J.P. Morgan Securities and two ...

For some of your clients, the market’s nearly 600% gain since the global financial crisis of 2008 might have a downside: Chances are they are holding heavily appreciated stocks that tip the balance of ...

For some of your clients, the market’s nearly 600% gain since the global financial crisis of 2008 might have a downside: Chances are they are holding some heavily appreciated stocks that tip the ...

In the future, will people have relationships with their financial advisors or with the advisors’ broker-dealers, custodians and other affiliated businesses? It’s an uncomfortable question. Clients ...

Bonds of Sammons Financial Group fell to the lowest since they were issued in June after a report probed the life insurer’s connections to Mark Walter’s Guggenheim Partners. The company’s bonds due in ...

On Monday, the agency released new guidance (including a revenue ruling) on “Section 351 seeding,” a tax strategy in which investors move their appreciated stock holdings into a special ETF created ...

Even more so than usual, Hollywood’s future is uncertain. For decades the Los Angeles economy revolved around the film industry, but now more movies and shows are filmed elsewhere, driven or lured ...