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.
From Financial Planning
Added on October 2018 in Join an RIA
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Summary: School's in session: Financial Planning's annual schools list features 102 CFP Board-registered programs at colleges and universities where prospective planners are learning the skills they need to hone their craft. Now you can, too, from the comforts of your desk, the chaos of your commute or while at home — or really, wherever you prefer to enjoy a good book.
From ThinkAdvisor
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Summary: A year after it acquired Mast Mobile, Hearsay Systems is introducing technology that gives financial advisors access to much more information on their mobile phones and the ability to turn that data into client calls, text messages and more.
