Independent advisors

Regulators have been working their way steadily down from the biggest players in the industry to regional firms in their quest to stamp out abuses of "off-channel" communications.

Barry Sommers comes in for high praise amid his firm's attempts to move beyond the banking scandals of its past.

The banking giant plans to put all asset managers through training in Python programming language, whether they 'like it or not.'

The Ohio regional will start offering advisory services to professional athletes after it buys Franklin Street Partners.

Envestnet sees asset management as poised for major changes as broker-dealers move to fee-based business.

Pass/fail may be replaced by public capital ratio; high court allows company to prevent merchants from favoring other cards.

The $6 million acquisition will add four businesses with a total of $700 million in assets under management.