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SEC creates cyber unit to eye firms and task force for investor protection

From InvestmentNews
Added on September 2017 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: The Securities and Exchange Commission has created a cyber unit to target cyber-related misconduct, as well as a retail strategy task force aimed at helping and protecting individual investors.

Recruiting surges at regionals, indies ― wirehouses not so much

From Financial Planning
Added on September 2017 in Join an RIA
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Summary: Recruiting momentum at independent firms such as Steward Partners as well as regional BDs and those that assist breakaways is outpacing the wirehouses.

Building a Dynasty: The rags-to-riches story of Shirl Penney, founder and CEO of Dynasty Financial Partners

From REALASSETS Advisor
Added on September 2017 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Though just 40 years old, Shirl Penney has already lived a life of extremes. Nothing is any more integral to his identity than having grown up in extreme poverty and rising above those early years of privation

Cybersecurity weaknesses worry state RIA regulators

From InvestmentNews
Added on September 2017 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: More than 1,200 coordinated examinations of state-registered investment advisers by state securities examiners in 37 jurisdictions uncovered 698 deficiencies involving cybersecurity, the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) said.

All in the Family: Keeping Smaller Clients Is Better Than Not

From ThinkAdvisor
Added on September 2017 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: In my blog last week, I wrote about the bad karma created by “pre-screening clients,” because nobody likes to hear that they “aren’t good enough,” and consequently aren’t going to think — or speak — well of an advisor who sends that message.

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