From IRIS
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Summary: Advisors are facing new challenges, whether they are harnessing the power of technology, confronting the prevailing downward pressure on fees, managing the impact of demographic shifts, or mastering a fast-moving market. What has worked in the past may not necessarily work in the future. But for those who can evolve with the industry, there will be greater opportunities ahead.
From WealthManagement.com
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Summary: Thomas “Tif” Joyce, a solo advisor and owner of Sonoma County Wealth Advisors, started thinking about retirement in 2010. He wanted to extract the financial value of the practice, of course, but among all the options to do that, there was one non-negotiable: Nothing could interrupt the lives of his clients or his clients’ children.
From WealthManagement.com
Added on February 2016 in Form an RIA
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Summary: By now, the awareness to better define and document protection of critical information, strengthen data security procedures as well as integrate incident response plans is well understood at all levels of business. Recent breaches (Target, Disney, OPM) only confirm such and lead to significant legislative and regulatory actions including those recently by FINRA and the SEC.
From InvestmentNews
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Summary: Marc Freedman, chief executive of Freedman Financial in Peabody, Mass., got his start in radio in 2012. He paid $2,000 a week to host an hour-long, live call-in show every Sunday at 4 p.m. on a major talk-radio station in Boston, 96.9 FM. As part of his arrangement, he got a producer and a series of promotional ads over the course of the week.
From Think Advisor
Added on February 2016 in Form an RIA
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Summary: The market for breakaway advisors “has never been more ripe,” but that’s not due to the Department of Labor’s fiduciary proposal, says Brian Hamburger, managing director of MarketCounsel, a consulting firm that helps those advisors set up their own RIA shops.
