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Summary: After much anticipation, the Department of Labor’s Conflict of Interest rule was finalized on April 6, 2016. Over the next several months, the industry will digest the new requirements with an eye towards meeting the initial phased-in effective date of April 2017 and be fully compliant by January 1, 2018.
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Summary: Rebranding is an ideal way to address these challenges: realigning companies with fundamental changes in the marketplace and revealing new paths to grow your professional services firm. Let’s step you through a tried-and-true process of self-assessment and re-adjustment, so you can recalibrate and reenergize your firm's brand.
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Summary: Throughout SIFMA’s Private Client Conference in New York City Thursday were discussions about the major demographic challenges confronting the financial advisory industry and about how firms are responding. The issues are the same ones that the industry has been facing for some years now, but they are becoming more critical as the populations of advisors and their clients age and American society grows more diverse.
Added on April 2016 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Axial.com publishes a lot of very helpful M&A pieces. The following came from The Complete Guide to Selling a Business. Axial also recently published The Guide to Evaluating Buyers for Your Company, which dives into this subject even deeper.
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Summary: Would you recommend a restaurant without having eaten there? Probably not, and yet the risk is minimal; a bad dinner. Yet financial advisors expect CPAs to refer clients without personally experiencing their level of professionalism and expertise? This is high risk, as a bad experience with a referred advisor and the CPA is likely to lose a client.
