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Trust Estate
August 29, 2025

Administering An Estate With Artworks – Strategic Options

The challenges of managing artworks in estate plans can be complicated and financially – and emotionally – draining. This is the third article in a series looking at how such issues can be addressed. ...

Trust Estate
August 25, 2025

What The Sector Has Gotten Wrong About “Great Wealth Transfer”

The wealth management sector has talked about a multi-trillion transfer of assets and liquid wealth from Baby Boomers to younger age cohorts for years. And yet changes made in the industry haven't always kept up...

Legal
August 21, 2025

Executor Survival: Navigating Legal, Emotional Turbulence – Lawyers And Family

The emotional and financial costs of handling estate-related litigation can be severe, and not always fully understood. In the second article in a series, the author looks at important considerations for people ...

Family Office
August 11, 2025

Getting Service Right For Family Offices – In Conversation With Northern Trust

We recently talked to the US-headquartered group about how it goes about serving family offices and the trends it sees unfold. ...

M and A
August 6, 2025

After The Honeymoon: How To Handle Post-M&A Integration Blues

Our US correspondent looks at the flurry of big merger and acquisition deals and how to handle the post-M&A integration blues. ...

Asset Management
July 7, 2025

Index Investing – How To Solve The "Reconstitution" Problem

We talk to Dimensional Fund Advisors about why index investing in the conventional sense raises a number of challenges that aren't widely appreciated. ...

Latest News

M and A
January 15, 2026

Canada's CI Global Asset Management Inks Invesco Funds Deal

Under the terms, the firm will buy Invesco's fund business agreements in Canada. CI's chief executive, Kurt MacAlpine, said the move demonstrated the benefits of now being a privately held company. ...

People Moves
January 15, 2026

Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? – Cetera, LPL, iCapital, Others

The latest moves, appointments and personnel moves in North American wealth management. ...

Family Office
January 15, 2026

Family Offices Get Bigger, More Sophisticated – The Implications

Family offices have grown rapidly as a sector inside and outside North America. Success also brings attention, such as from regulators. It also requires the sector to be more professional in its processes. This ...

M and A
January 15, 2026

Deals Of The Day: The Latest In Wealth Management M&A – Bluespring Wealth Partners, Beacon Pointe, Others

The latest mergers, acquisitions and other corporate actions in the wealth management sector. ...

People Moves
January 15, 2026

Federated Hermes Makes Senior Changes

The changes, to take effect when the previous CIO and executive vice president retires on May 1, 2026, are part of Federated Hermes’ long-term succession plan. ...

M and A
January 14, 2026

Deals Of The Day: The Latest In Wealth Management M&A – RBC Wealth Management

The latest mergers, acquisitions and other corporate actions in the wealth management sector. ...