To attract young planners, advisory firms need a clear career track with training and experience goals.

If you want an extraordinary career, embrace your errors and stop procrastinating.

A series of five meetings can turn prospects into loyal clients and set the stage for continuing business development.

A commitment memorandum may help curb impulsive investors.

Take a close look at the risk and performance over four decades of seven asset classes in a diversified portfolio.

Contrarians must decide if underperformers offer profit potential - or could burn investors yet again.

Using the S&P 500 as a benchmark probably means you're overstating performance and understating risk.

Résumé-building books may not be worth the trouble, although they can serve as marketing tools.

When parent and child are business partners, a key to success is mutual respect.

Consider converting a 401(k) to an IRA before a second marriage if the new spouse isn't the desired heir.

As tales of identity theft mount, planners discover that fraud protection is crucial for clients - and themselves.

As ETF investors face a long climb back to economic recovery, many pin their hopes on Northern European funds.

Hiring people you won't end up terminating requires a thorough and realistic selection process.

Clients who serve as trustee of an insurance trust may get more than they bargained for if the life policy is not performing.

A new chapter of estate planning begins after a client passes on.

This veteran planner loves spending time with her clients' young children.

Firms ready to embrace social media are proceeding cautiously.

BlackRock Capital Appreciation's Jeff Lindsey is finding fast-growing companies despite a modest recovery.

Through financial therapy, Rick Kahler helps clients understand their past.

Risk-averse young investors own more stocksthan their predecessors did because of changes in retirement plan design.