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Summary: I’m not saying I’m always right. In fact, I love it when someone points out I’m wrong, and shows me why, because I learn something. So, I was particularly interested when in Sunday’s Guardian, I saw the headline Blockchain: hype or hope.
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Summary: To some financial advisers, the idea of a niche practice focused on families affected by autism might never come to mind.
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Summary: The biggest change in my practice since I opened in 2013 is pricing. And it’s not just me – most new RIA owners have gone through at least one pricing iteration. But why is pricing (and service models) so hard to figure out?
Added on March 2018 in Form an RIA
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Summary: One of the virtues of working in a broker-dealer or especially a wirehouse environment is that the firm makes a number of decisions for you as the advisor, greatly expediting the process of being able to quickly launch your business and focus on working with your clients. The bad news is that in at least some cases, it’s much less expensive to simply set up your own advisory firm instead – especially if your focus is on charging AUM or other financial planning fees, such that there’s no need to have a broker-dealer affiliation in the first place.
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Summary: Could clearing up the decades-old confusion over the role of a broker compared to that of an investment adviser be as easy as clarifying their professional titles?
