Private equity-backed Arax Investment Partners, a New York wealth and asset management platform, has acquired Pinnacle Peak Private Client Group, an Arizona RIA that manages $460 million in assets.

Perhaps one should avoid the temptation to use house metaphors when describing something like an RIA business. And yet. Like your house, your advisory firm has likely got a lot of your personal stake ...

The Covid-19 pandemic unleashed not only death and disruption but economic contradiction: a K-shaped recovery of haves and have-nots. Parts of the economy cratered while other parts, especially in ...

My friend Kai Wu, host of “The Intangible Economy” podcast and manager of Sparkline Capital’s Intangible Value ETFs ITAN and DTAN, interviewed financial historian Edward Chancellor, who has spent a ...

Even more so than usual, Hollywood’s future is uncertain. For decades the Los Angeles economy revolved around the film industry, but now more movies and shows are filmed elsewhere, driven or lured ...

For some of your clients, the market’s nearly 600% gain since the global financial crisis of 2008 might have a downside: Chances are they are holding heavily appreciated stocks that tip the balance of ...

Andre El-Baba never imagined an investment fund could trap him. A lifelong property manager from Vancouver, he’d spent decades navigating real estate markets and thought he understood risk. So when he ...

Almost 50% of investors say social media impacts whom they hire as a financial professional and 33% report they seek financial advice online, according to a new survey from Hartford Funds. In fact, 20 ...

Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network (FiNet), a subsidiary of Wells Fargo, announced that a team of financial advisors and support staff in Ohio managing $1.3 billion in client assets recently left ...

In the future, will people have relationships with their financial advisors or with the advisors’ broker-dealers, custodians and other affiliated businesses? It’s an uncomfortable question. Clients ...

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Robert Laura’s book Retirement Intelligence—Personal Retirement Readiness. Did you know that 60% of people who try to escape from prison are caught within the ...

Investors snagged 5% yields on 30-year Treasurys for the first time since 2007, as surging energy prices push inflation—and expectations for more of it—higher. A $25 billion auction of new 30-year ...