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Summary: Managing personal finances and preparing for retirement isn't easy for anyone, but the challenges are particularly difficult for women. The latest results of an annual survey of financial literacy and wellness showed that women continue to feel less confident than men about their ability to manage their cash flow and debt, allocate their investments and prepare for their retirement.
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Summary: In Bob Veres’ latest column in Financial Planning, he says any move to force brokerage representatives to adopt the strict client-first standard of RIA advisors risks getting crushed or watered down by brokerage-backed lobbyists.
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Summary: Advisers work hard to get their clients and professional contacts to recommend their services to others. They sometimes don't focus enough on another key source of referrals: their staff. Not just junior advisers but administrative assistants and operational staff all can play an important role in identifying and developing new leads. To get them really involved, "firms should create a referral culture," says Jylanne Dunne, senior vice president of practice management at Fidelity Investments in Boston.
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Summary: Hiring millennials can pump new life into an aging advisory workforce. Keeping them around and making sure they’ll succeed is another matter, says The Wall Street Journal.
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Summary: Financial services firms give lip service to the importance of compliance, but the majority fails to devote adequate resources to the function, according to a new survey by Cipperman Compliance Services.The survey found that the compliance function in these firms tended to be underfunded and understaffed.
