EFE CEO Ralph Haberli says the number of clients that have converted from workplace to wealth has more than doubled over the last five years.

Mehmet Oz is not an economist, but he occasionally plays one on TV. Speaking last week at a televised forum on mental health, the medical doctor and administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed an idea for how to boost the US economy: Americans should just work longer. Adding a year of work would generate $3 trillion, he said, enough to “remove the [national] debt.”

In 2025, RIA deal activity continued to be dominated by private equity firms and strategic acquirers with an appetite for larger RIAs.

Asset manager F/m Investments is launching a mutual fund share class of its most popular ETF with an eye on the American retirement system.

Compensation conversations can serve as touchpoints for deeper engagement, strategic alignment and long-term value creation.

Operations excellence drives client satisfaction and referrals at RIA firms when sales and ops teams collaborate effectively

Nuveen acquires UK's Schroders for $13.5 billion, forming $2.5 trillion asset manager.

Survey finds 44% of qualified women investors lack clear venture capital access despite 94% having private market allocations

Nasdaq debuts new indexes tracking 14,000 private market funds worth $11.4 trillion as firms race to benchmark opaque investments

PitchBook debuts PitchBook Valuation Estimates, a daily valuation framework using machine learning and market data to value over 15,000 VC-backed companies

PNC Bank’s wealth management division plans to recruit 300 to 500 advisors and update 200 branches with the goal of working with more emerging earners.

Trial lawyer Jerome Schlichter battles Wall Street firms seeking access to $14 trillion in workplace retirement savings through new funds

Artificial intelligence doesn’t only threaten to put herds of software businesses out to pasture. Anthropic PBC’s schooling of its Claude models in financial modelling has also sent a cold shiver down the spines of bankers and analysts. While I mostly suspect that the banking industry’s talent for self-preservation will defend it from technological change, I do wonder if the extreme version of our fully automated AI future could make financial services as irrelevant as everything else.

Wealthy families face conflict over authorship, not money. Learn how advisors help design systems for productive family dialogue

Fred Barstein discusses jobs numbers, IRA rollovers, Basic Capital, the conflict between advisors and record keepers and more.

$156B RIA Cerity Partners will combine wealth management with institutional consulting as it acquires Seattle-based Verus, which oversees $1.2T in assets

The Orange County firm adds 28 staff members including 16 advisors to the RIA giant's growing network of wealth management offices

Five advisors from Commonwealth move $730 million in client assets to Raymond James amid ongoing post-acquisition departures

Also, KeyBank bolsters family office and private capital client offerings with a five-person team, and American Beacon names investment product head.

News for financial advisors about RIA ownership of ETFs, model portfolio adoptions, bitcoin, private credit woes.

Asset manager Neuberger Berman has agreed to take over the alts-focused in-house investment and wealth advisory unit of McKinsey called MIO Partners.

Private markets now offer digital discovery and education similar to public markets, making investments more accessible to advisors

Rotational fixed-income ETFs convert taxable distributions into deferred capital gains, boosting after-tax returns by 90 basis points

Kestra’s Bluespring makes an early splash in 2026 with a deal for a 50-person team with seven producing advisors.

The new feature analyzes client documents to create personalized tax strategies and interactive scenario modeling for advisors