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Summary: Fidelity revealed details of wide-ranging digital plans, from technology and platform upgrades to how the firm will provide advisers with a robo.
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Summary: In the wake of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule, is it deal or no deal for advisers looking to sell their firms? Two leading financial advice industry executives gave pointedly different answers to that question Wednesday morning at an industry conference in New York.
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Summary: Not long ago, CEOs — especially those at the helms of financial organizations — were perceived as inhabitants of lofty ivory towers, where their importance and superiority kept them isolated and safe from the investing public. And for centuries, the masses accepted it. Then the internet came along and changed everything.
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Summary: (Bloomberg) -- Morgan Stanley could do little but watch as a team of advisers overseeing $2.2 billion in assets quit last month to start their own shop, the latest in a string of departures that have shifted billions of dollars in assets away from big Wall Street banks.
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Summary: It took almost two years for Gretchen Stangier, president of Stangier Wealth Management in Portland, Oregon, to find the right hire. But, she says, the effort has paid off in flexibility, the option of taking on clients with lower minimums, business continuity and a built-in sales plan when she’s ready to retire.