The flourishing market is a giant growth engine for a Troy, Mich.-based RIA that has its sights set on national growth

The fiduciary planning model is taking shots from every angle but the jugular looks inaccessible

Simba was set for her 'appointment' but it was too soon for our hearts and the dog doctor's, too

Chuck's new money-back guarantee sends a 'shot across the bow' to wirehouses but Schwab RIAs won't be untouched

As part of its gender efforts, the Boston giant has crafted a quiz -- one that strikes United Capital's Joe Duran as suspiciously familiar

For one thing the RIA maestro with $18 billion of advised asset charges full boat and people are an option

This year's potpourri includes young Horatio Algers, aged Cassandras, irate investors and a professor with the 401(k) industry in his sights

The big broker-dealer is making moves that do not discriminate against, may in fact favor, pure RIAs, but hybrid habits die hard, skeptics say

The federal keeper of the standards has stopped battling brokers from calling themselves 'wealth managers', advertising 'trust' or looking the other way on principal trades

The namesakes for Dodd-Frank invest personally through Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch and seem to be oblivious about why that may not be in their best interests -- though I tried to explain it to Barney Frank

A Cassandra-like Steve Lockshin lead the gloomsters, Team Tech protested that the future is bright and Frank & Dodd laid an egg

Besides Carson Wealth Management Group using it, his roll-up/TAMP, Carson Institutional Alliance, will also become an Orion/Salesforce shop

After two years, less than 1,000 advisors paid for the website and BrightScope hopes free is a better price-point for some

Clients of Pershing RIAs can get jumbo mortgage loans -- a good lure for breakaways used to cross-selling like mad at wirehouses

As new owner of Tamarac, the Chicago outsourcer has its own portfolio accounting, not Schwab PortfolioCenter, as the guts of its mini-ecosystem for the first time

A few alarms are sounded about a tougher, maybe SEC, rumbling about the end of the Broker Protocol,

The North Dakota oil rush and a giant Microsoft presence figure in but mostly it's the passion of a young man with a plan

Here comes a CEO with an IPO under his belt, a Smith Barney legend and the E*TRADE baby-commercial guy

Zohar reappears; Dan Skiles cements his status in San Diego and TD's selects Mitt Romney as its keynote next month

In latest RIA taunt to Wall Street, Marty Bicknell ends an 11-month deal moratorium by placing his Mariner flag in the Big Apple

At the same time, the Boston giant slashes commissions on 99% of the other mutual funds and, analysts say, may have declared war on Vanguard and Schwab in one move

RIAs angling for a bigger piece of 403(b) arena cause the giant firm to play defense in hopes of intercepting more rollover dollars of soon-to-be-retirees

The ex-Goldman Sachs executive draws blood with poaching of rival Presidio Group's Mike Tierney, but his quest for a quick $1-billion of AUM will soon be tested

Ed Friedman, once at Elliot Weissbluth's left hand, becomes right-hand man of Shirl Penney after two years of cooling his heels after departure from HighTower

An alpha predator in 2010, 2011, the Chicago-based rollup, now with with 260 employees, roars again, twice at Merrill Lynch and once at UBS

All selling is 'overselling' in the sense that the average sales takes five contacts -- and advisors are known to stop at one or two