From WealthManagement.com
Added on October 2018 in Form an RIA
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Summary: The push to broaden fiduciary protection for investors at the federal level is looking more and more like a lost cause, so states are starting to step into the void. And that’s prompting some disagreements among organizations that represent financial planners.
From Financial Planning
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Summary: Even if RIAs with less than $500 million in AUM aren’t ready to buy or sell, they should be assessing their M&A prospects, said Slater, vice president of practice management and consulting for Fidelity Clearing and Custody Solutions.
From ThinkAdvisor
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Summary: While many advisors work extensively with successful small business owners, many struggle to properly serve that client segment, because they underestimate the role and impact of the most important asset in such investors’ lives: the business itself.
From ThinkAdvisor
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Summary: Email spam may be looked at as the poor cousin to bigger hacking episodes, but in a new study by the Securities and Exchange Commission, “spoofed or manipulated electronic communications are an increasingly familiar and pervasive problem,” the report stated. In fact, the FBI 2017 Internet Crime Report stated that “business email compromises” caused more than $5 billion in losses since 2013, with an additional $675 million in adjusted losses in 2017, “the highest estimated out-of-pocket losses from any class of cyber-facilitated crime during this period,” the SEC report stated.
From Financial Planning
Added on October 2018 in Form an RIA
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Summary: In the past, advisors met their clients in person, made a phone call or maybe sent an email, but now clients and brokers can communicate anytime across a far wider variety of mediums. Text messages, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Skype, WeChat, Instagram: All these channels can be used to conduct business. They can also be used for other nefarious activities, presenting financial services companies with the daunting task of ensuring that all staff interactions meet compliance obligations.
