From Investment Advisor
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Summary: Your firm has a unique culture, whether you craft that culture intentionally or it arises on its own. In every business, transformative events imprint on employees, clients and vendors. The way you handle business decisions and how you treat each of these parties impacts your firm's culture—and casts you as either a mercenary or a missionary.
From WSJ Online
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Summary: Teaming up with a younger partner is often a smart move for a financial adviser. Sometimes it’s the only move. Barry Krane found himself feeling that way when one of his six children was diagnosed five years ago with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer.
From Think Advisor
Added on November 2014 in Form an RIA
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Summary: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is moving ahead with its controversial plan to collect broker-dealer account data through its Comprehensive Automated Risk Data System (CARDS) program as FINRA is “getting to problems where investors are severely harmed too late,” and is "testing" the impact of its broker recruitment compensation plan, Richard Ketchum, the self-regulator’s CEO, said Monday.
From Financial Planning
Added on November 2014 in Form an RIA
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Summary: SEC Chair Mary Jo White believes that the fiduciary standard rule in the works at the regulator is "enormously important." Yet she declined to specify her position on the rule or exactly when it might arrive, noting the complexity of the issue.
From Think Advisor
Added on November 2014 in Join an RIA
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Summary: Schwab Advisor Services, which as the leading RIA custodian epitomizes the independent advisor, is making inroads capturing the assets of the least independent among the advisor community, going after the huddled masses of wirehouse advisors — at least the most entrepreneurial among them — who are yearning to breathe free.
