“Fee-only” compensation — for over a decade an effective rallying cry for the RIA movement — is now more strictly defined under the CFP Board’s revised rules, whose enforcement period began this month ...

Hy-Vee gave a thumbs-down to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for a rule update that excluded reform on rising direct and indirect (DIR) remuneration fees in the Medicare Part D ...

As of January 1, the Workers’ Compensation Board has implemented new changes to attorneys’ fee request. Previously, there was no specific methodology for the award of attorney fees, and granting a fee ...

Is your firm’s compensation commission based? Then brace for scrutiny. These days, true or not, until recently “commission” was practically a code for churning. Is your firm’s compensation model ...

Asset-based fees continue to dominate the compensation landscape for RIAs, but the latest data from the Investment Adviser Association show that advisers are increasingly adopting a mix of fee ...

UMortgage is shifting to a flat-fee compensation model, waiving fees for loan officers after 50 loans per year, with plans to grow its sales force to 1,000 by December. AI Summary UMortgage is rolling ...

Investment fees are easy to ignore. You don’t get billed for your advisor’s fee or the expense ratio of a mutual fund. They quietly take it out of your investment portfolio every quarter. Yet fees can ...

It was inevitable that at some stage this column would address how agencies get paid, and since this is an agency-orientated feature it was predictable that we would put forward the case for the ...

A glance through the planner remuneration column of the Top 100 table confirms what many have suspected — all the talk of fee-based advice is just that, talk. Only one of the 56 groups that disclosed ...