From ThinkAdvisor
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Summary: While investment advisory firms are optimistic about their business prospects — with close to 80% planning to expand their staffs in the next year — cybersecurity, a potential market crisis, regulations and fee compression top their list of rising concerns, according to a just-released report by the Investment Adviser Association and Cerulli Associates.
From ThinkAdvisor
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Summary: Historically, financial advisors have admired the wirehouse model, in part because of the reputation and credibility those advisors could leverage with new and existing clients. The major wirehouses — Morgan Stanley, UBS Wealth Management, Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo — stood tall as household names, and affiliation with those brands could give advisors a competitive leg up.
From InvestmentNews
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Summary: Market forces — like shifting demographics, consumer demand and regulation — are making financial planning an imperative for firms across the wealth management industry. As a result, financial planning technology is quickly becoming the front line in the battle for client assets.
From WealthManagement.com
Added on August 2018 in Form an RIA
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Summary: Circle back to 2009: The financial crisis had barely passed, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president, and Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years for his multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Meanwhile, more than 24,000 financial advisors who changed firms that year worried that the days of outsized recruiting deals were going to be a thing of the past.
From InvestmentNews
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Summary: If financial advisers agree social media is no longer an optional part of their business, it's time to start checking out some of the tools employed by the internet's "power users."
