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Summary: Financial advisors prefer to meet their clients face-to-face, according to a new study from Hartford Funds, and not via video. The study of 116 financial advisors—and administered in-person—found that 73 percent of advisors considered in-person meetings their favored method of communication with both clients and prospects. In comparison, only 12 percent of advisors found video platforms like Skype or FaceTime the most useful for client conversations. Among digital options, advisors listed LinkedIn as top choice, followed by Twitter and Skype.
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Summary: Cybersecurity continues to be registered investment advisors’ top compliance challenge, with 81% of advisors polled in a just-released Investment Adviser Association survey placing it at the top of their list, the fifth year cyber has held the spot, and nearly two-thirds indicating that their firms increased compliance testing in this area over the past year.
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Summary: he future is already here, according to science-fiction writer William Gibson, who noted, "it's just not very evenly distributed."
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Summary: RIAs find themselves forced to keep up with a world changing on many fronts—an evolving client base, shifting regulations, new technological possibilities and demand for new services. Even as financial markets provide a tailwind for their firms, new technologies and new business models are surfacing to continuously challenge them.
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Summary: Effective marketing helped top registered investment advisors grow at twice the rate other firms did in 2017, according to an annual survey by Charles Schwab.
