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Industry experts and analysts take comfort in the firm's choice of Rich Steinmeier as interim CEO and say they see little reason to expect serious disruption.

According to a recent Cerulli study, more than half of retired 401(k) participants say Social Security is their primary source of income. At the same time, only 6% of millennials predict they will rely on those funds when they finish their careers.

The technology could change the way many financial advisors interact with their clients, but that evolution will come with important questions, an expert says.

Planners Carolyn McClanahan and Dana Anspach discuss how the client expenses work for their advisory practices as more firms rethink their approach.

The burgeoning "after loss" industry has the potential to differentiate RIAs from the competition as it fills a service gap in advisory practices, writes one of its pioneers.

The second annual Private Business Owners Survey by Brown Brothers Harriman found that over one-third of private business owners said their family's values are different from those of the family business.

The former Wells employee says he was basically forced to quit after a series of fumbles by the firm cost him his book of business and brought his pay down to "minimum wage level."

LPL directors terminated CEO Dan Arnold's employment after an outside law firm found comments he had made to employees had violated the firm's code of conduct.

Financial advisors may have varying levels of familiarity with these areas of services, but experts provided a blueprint on how to focus this key planning discussion.

The change, one among several at the firm's top, follows on a year that executives have deemed one of the firm's most difficult in decades.