Our independent firm ranking expands to 100 spots this year, and our rankings formula includes several new metrics: technology spending, staff diversity and succession planning.

For the first time, Barron’s is ranking the largest registered investment advisor firms separately from its broader RIA ranking. For our list of mega RIAs, we selected firms that manage 2% or ...

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Compensation costs for registered investment advisories, or RIAs, made up 74% of firms' expenses in 2019, according to the Schwab 2020 RIA Benchmarking Study, released Thursday. The compensation ...

But the overall number of advisors and brokers has remained virtually flat for a decade, the research firm says.

Mergers and acquisitions of RIA firms are at record highs, a new Fidelity report says. RIA owners looking to retire has combined with lots of new acquirers looking to buy to create a "perfect ...

In its RIA Retirement Planning Survey 2020 of more than 200 advisors, DPL Financial Partners, an insurance network for RIAs, found that RIAs are struggling to find new investing strategies that ...

MOSCOW-Russian Aerospace Forces, part of the country’s armed forces, launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a spacecraft for defence purposes, the state RIA news agency reported early on March 3 ...