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Who gives you financial advice? Why does it matter how he or she is paid? Because it’s probably the most important thing determining the quality of advice you receive.

These indie broker-dealers have the most reps who produce $500K or more per year.

$250M team jumps to Ameriprise; ‘we’d become bankers as well as advisers’.

Increases account minimum to $250,000 in bid to bring in wealthier clients.

Wells Fargo B-D aims to reward reps who bring in new business; no longer ‘recruit or die’.

Even so, 72% of industry assets remain in commission-based accounts.

An investor website is promising to give clients their first clear look under the hood of their brokerage accounts to see whether they are getting a good deal for the prices that they pay.

Before taking a self-imposed vow of silence, Ron Rhoades sounds off on the RIA industry and tells what’s it’s like to hit a professional wall The outspoken NAPFA chairman-who-wasn’t covers why the Bachus bill will rise again, the true fix for RIA exams and why the term ‘fee-based’ is inherently ‘fraudulent’

Hedgies back to out-earning mutual fund counterparts by a ton.

A Finra proposal to require brokers to tell customers about bonuses and other compensation incentives they receive to join another firm drew sharp reactions after it was announced last week.