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CFP Board's Proposed Fiduciary Standard: Too Weak, Too Strong or Just Right?

Added on August 2017 in Form an RIA
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Summary: Are the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standardsproposed revisions to its Standards of Professional Conduct too weak, too strong or just right?

The future looks very different

Added on August 2017 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: For a uniquely informed perspective on where the advice profession is heading in the coming decade, InvestmentNews assembled leaders from among the next generation of advisers and other key industry participants in New York in June for an event called “The Future of Our Business by the Future of Our Business,” sponsored by Fidelity Investments.

Best Practices to Hire, Train, and Develop Employees

Added on August 2017 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: [VIDEO] Is there a right way to hire people? Just like there's no one perfect way to manage a team, there's no one perfect way to hire and train employees. However, there are best practices for doing so.

Advisers turning to text messages to communicate with clients

Added on August 2017 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Financial advisers over the past 12 months have been giving text messaging a fresh look as a method for communicating with clients, in part because email has become a much less effective way to connect.

When Independence Makes More Economic Sense

Added on August 2017 in Join an RIA
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Summary: Over the last five years, a number of advisors have left the wirehouses and other employee models to go independent. In fact, the asset market share of the wirehouses, national and regional broker/dealers, has declined from about 63 percent in 2011 to nearly 59 percent at year-end 2016, according to Cerulli Associates. At the same time, independent channels—independent broker/dealers, RIAs and hybrid RIAs—saw a jump in market share from about 37 percent in 2011 to 41 percent in 2016.

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