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Summary: Securities and Exchange Commission examiners haven't slowed down during the dog days of summer, according to compliance consultants who attribute the uptick in the SEC exam pace to the agency's focus on registered investment advisers who have never been examined. At the beginning of the year, the SEC launched a program to target about 1,000 advisers who have been registered for three years or more without being audited. The agency hopes to examine about half of them over the next two years.
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Summary: In Bob Veres’ latest column in Financial Planning, he says any move to force brokerage representatives to adopt the strict client-first standard of RIA advisors risks getting crushed or watered down by brokerage-backed lobbyists.
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Summary: Financial services firms give lip service to the importance of compliance, but the majority fails to devote adequate resources to the function, according to a new survey by Cipperman Compliance Services.The survey found that the compliance function in these firms tended to be underfunded and understaffed.
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Summary: You can't have a business conversation or attend an industry conference without hearing someone ask "are you in the cloud?" Indeed, servers and disk storage have been evolving frighteningly quickly over the past five years. However, like anything you do for your business, don't do it just to keep pace. Make it a determined decision that means you will either save time, money or both. And if you can add in offering new capabilities for your clients, all the better.
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Summary: So far in this series on CRM technology utilization, we’ve talked about where most people start A 5-Step Process to Utilize Your Existing Technology: Level 1—All in Your Head) and transitioning to defined and consistent checklist based processes (A 5-Step Process to Utilize Your Existing Technology: Level 2—Make a Checklist). Now that you’ve put your processes into the checklist form and gotten buy-in from your user team, it is time to really start leveraging the power of the CRM tool in which you’ve invested.
