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Summary: Recently, a colleague of mine suggested that "back office" should be considered a bad word, because it's where things go wrong without accountability.
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Summary: A financial advisory practice is a business and you have to make sure you can handle growth in a scalable manner, but just because your practice has just the right number of clients now doesn’t mean you can write off marketing.
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Summary: Cybersecurity continues to be registered investment advisors’ top compliance challenge, with 81% of advisors polled in a just-released Investment Adviser Association survey placing it at the top of their list, the fifth year cyber has held the spot, and nearly two-thirds indicating that their firms increased compliance testing in this area over the past year.
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Summary: In the advisor-client relationship, the advisor provides advice and the consumer provides compensation for that advice. But advisors can—and should—learn from their clients, particularly when it comes to technology.
Added on July 2018 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Captrust Financial Advisors, which has bought 29 firms in the past 12 years, made its first purchase of 2018, closing a deal to acquire Catawba Capital Management , a Roanoke, Virginia-based advisory firm with around $1 billion in assets under management.