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Ron Rhoades: I can assure you that I am doing fine.

Ron Rhoades: Staying on at NAPFA would have given ammunition to RIA industry foes

Shocked industry advocates are conflicted as to whether Rhoades should have stayed the course; in another industry shakeup, FPA's Marvin W. Tuttle announces he will step down

August 21, 2012 at 8:52 AM

Brian Hamburger: Things are not as complicated as some would have you believe ... so long as the advertising contains adequate disclosure.

6 ways to advertise your investment performance and not run afoul of regulators' wrath

Brian Hamburger debunks advertising myths that scare RIAs from showing off their tracks record

August 20, 2012 at 3:44 AM

New York not the center of the RIA world? Fuhgeddaboudit!

Why the slow-evolving metro New York area is still on course to be the capital of the RIA business

The city's sheer wealth and jungle-like powers of regeneration alone mean that it can stomp San Francisco

August 8, 2012 at 4:02 AM

Brian Hamburger: It’s like saying that private home pools need to have lifeguards on duty at all times because water parks are required to do so.

Brian Hamburger fires back at Rep. Spencer Bachus' Wall Street Journal op-ed

In his response to “Financial Advisers, Police Yourselves” the RIA lawyer derides the confusing message and demands cops, not community watch

August 6, 2012 at 10:57 PM

Skip Schweiss: I feel like democracy worked the way it is supposed to work and that should be encouraging to all advisors.

How RIA forces squashed the Bachus bill by calling the implicit FINRA bluff

Faced with the threat of more SEC exams and higher fees to pay for them, RIA leaders said in effect: Bring it on

August 2, 2012 at 3:59 PM

RIABiz spent its first marketing dollars cladding bar staff at INSITE, with help from Ryan Shanks. [Photo by Mike Byrnes]

Pershing draws a record crowd to steamy Miami but many hearts are in D.C.

INSITE produced bipartisan cheers for Bill Clinton and a split view on the FINRA battle up North

June 7, 2012 at 4:46 AM

Ken Robinson: It's a thinly veiled hostile takeover of independent fiduciary advisors by those who fear them the most.

RIAs flood Capitol Hill with protests against a SRO-FINRA future on the day of the Bachus Bill hearing

Schwab's Clark and TD's Schweiss lead the charge, arriving in D.C. with impassioned advisor missives predicting an 'avalanche of costly regulation'

June 6, 2012 at 5:24 AM

Brian Hamburger: The Bill's supporters are promoting a devious shell game to hinder the growth of an industry that has flourished by doing the right thing for investors.

Brian Hamburger hammers the FINRA SRO proposal in a letter

In his muscular style as a lawyer and insider in the regulatory realm, the MarketCounsel principal pulls no punches

June 5, 2012 at 10:53 PM

Michael Nathanson promised deals -- and quickly delivered.

Mintz Levin sells its $1.2 billion RIA, and Focus Financial nabs the assets through a partner firm

In an all-Boston deal, The Colony Group becomes a $2.5 billion behemoth only months after hooking up with the big New York consolidator

May 31, 2012 at 5:45 AM

Angela Canterbury: Several members of Bernard Madoff's family held leadership roles at FINRA.

Non-partisan watchdog group writes a scathing letter about FINRA

POGO, which uncovered the Pentagon's famed $7,500 coffee maker, says the would-be SRO is basically rife with conflicts of interest

May 31, 2012 at 5:32 AM

Christopher Mason is keeping his assets at Fidelity: "They don't have quarterly earnings and they don't do stupid things."

Why one UBS advisor broke away even knowing that his former partner would keep the 401(k) assets

Christopher Mason is establishing Fontis as part of CONCERT but hasn't given up hope of selling his portfolio management skills on UBS' platform

May 17, 2012 at 6:26 AM

Chip Roame sees a coming explosion of discount brokerage branches.

8 notable takeaways from the spring 2012 Tiburon CEO Summit

The breakaway movement still depends more on Wall Street's moves than Main Street's moxie

April 18, 2012 at 5:58 AM

Glenn Neasham: I didn't do anything wrong.

How Glenn Neasham lost his house, was forced to go on food stamps and faces jail time after selling a senior an indexed annuity

The case of this Lake County, Calif. insurance agent gives pause to advisors and agents dealing with seniors -- and indexed annuities

April 4, 2012 at 4:36 AM

Ron Carson: It came to me that there was a better way to approach the industry.

The top 10 people to watch in the RIA business in 2012, Part 1

Forces changing the trajectory of the RIA movement

March 12, 2012 at 5:09 AM

Daniel Bernstein: If an advisor posted that they 'held a great meeting on 401(k) plans,' and someone 'liked' it, it could be construed as a testimonial.

SEC sends sharp warning to advisors using social media

RIAs have to make sure they don't get 'liked' on popular websites like Facebook

January 6, 2012 at 3:20 PM

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