From Think Advisor
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Summary: PIMCO chief Bill Gross famously (or infamously, depending on your point of view) questioned the value of a college education, considering tuition costs against future earnings. If you need to be convinced that a college education can be a good investment, flip through 15 Cheapest Colleges With Best Job Value.
From Think Advisor
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Summary: Fearful that an army of robo-advisors will raid your clients, eat your lunch, burn your fields and leave you high and dry? Then you may be interested to know about a new tech offering that’s not trying to turn robots into financial advisors but rather to get the robots to work for the financial advisor.
From Think Advisor
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Summary: Advisory industry executives and advocates descended on Capitol Hill Thursday to participate in the Investment Adviser Association’s annual lobbying day. Those issues include not only boosting funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission so that it can increase advisor exams, but pushing members of Congress to support the Investment Adviser Examination Improvement Act of 2013, a bill sponsored by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., that would allow the agency to collect fees from advisors to fund their exam.
From riabiz
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Summary: He fought the Securities and Exchange Commission and the agency lost — in other words, Mark Cuban is just Brian Hamburger’s kind of guy. More to the point, Cuban, the 55-year-old owner of the Dallas Mavericks is a dream choice to speak at the securities attorney’s annual conference, the MarketCounsel Summit, an agglomeration of RIAs that answer to the SEC for their every move on behalf of clients.
From riabiz
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Summary: INSITE 2014 unveils wired body armor for the advisor of the future as it rolls out a slew of NetX360 upgrades. Demonstration of future technologies was a running theme at INSITE conference this year, as 2,300 advisors, broker-dealer executives, trust companies and a large swath of international wealth management folks crowded into the Hollywood Westin resort, just north of Miami Beach.
