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Summary: For financial advisers who launch their own independent practices, having equity is king. Those ownership stakes are very different from the shares many held in big securities firms that previously employed them. The private-company equity comes with big advantages but also risks.
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Summary: Cyber attacks are causing real-world losses across the spectrum of the economy, and financial companies also have to contend with the subsequent threat of regulatory fines resulting from any breaches. For better preparedness, financial-advice practices need to have a solid plan and a tool kit of software, CNBC.com writes.
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Summary: Compensation is the wrong way to make your decision. The decision starts and ends with clients, as highlighted in these four questions you should be prepared to answer.
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Summary: At TD Ameritrade Institutional's advocacy summit, several officials raised the concern that it will only take one major scandal to force the issue of expanding advisor exams. When that happens, policymakers aren't likely to adopt any framework that the industry could support, but could instead turn examination authority over FINRA, which some view as the least desirable outcome.
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Summary: The ‘popular’ view of the world of financial advisors these days is that we’re all in a collective race for size and economies of scale, because only the largest can survive and everyone else is doomed to a world of declining profit margins as the overhead costs of running an advisory firm grind their income down to nothing.
