An independent financial advisor is a professional who offers personalized financial guidance without being tied to a specific financial institution or product provider. This independence can allow ...

You might want to work with a financial advisor because you want help with investments, insurance, or other planning. Large companies often employ financial advisors, but you can also work with an ...

An independent financial advisor isn’t affiliated with a big investment firm. Instead, they run their own businesses or work for an independent firm. Independent advisors often have fewer conflicts of ...

Wealth.com has announced a strategic partnership with Independent Advisor Alliance, offering IAA’s network of 225 financial advisors access to its comprehensive estate planning platform. The ...

Artificial intelligence doesn't appear to be eliminating advisor jobs, but it's certainly changing what human advisors do at their job on a daily basis. Most of the AI tools advisors currently use are ...

LPL Financial, with close to 28,000 financial advisors on its platform, on Thursday informed its independent advisors it was changing the targets for a production bonus for the first time in a decade, ...

Adviser AUM has surged to $31.3 trillion, but the number of advisers is flat. Independent RIAs are gaining market share, while broker/dealer advisers are hamstrung by technology. The market is ...

The independent financial advice industry is maturing fast. The number of registered investment advisor, or RIA, firms more than doubled from 2000 to 2024, from 6,949 to 15,870, according to the ...

Learn how independent financial advisors operate, how they differ from advisors tied to firms and whether their model benefits your financial planning Molly Grace is a staff money writer at Buy Side ...