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Summary: Financial advisors are human, so they’re bound to make mistakes. But such missteps don’t have to be occasions for regret — not always. Advisors who have had to own up to and make up for errors say the experience can solidify relationships with offended clients and even make them more loyal to advisors who have had the guts to admit mistakes.
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Summary: The pace of retiring advisors continues to accelerate, with almost 70,000 advisors with more than $2 trillion in assets under management retiring over the next decade, according to a new report from State Street Global Advisors.
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Summary: Turns out Youtube is more than just a website for music videos and cat clips — viewers appreciate educational and informational segments, as well."Every day, people watch hundreds of millions of hours on Youtube," Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google, said during parent company Alphabet Inc.'s most recent earnings call. "People turn to Youtube because they want to research, buy or fix a product."Advisers can take advantage of this trend by offering research-driven videos.
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Summary:Expect more breakaway brokers who become RIAs to merge their teams and form mega-firms, says a top industry executive.
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Summary: The Securities and Exchange Commission’s chief of staff, Andrew “Buddy” Donohue, is challenging chief compliance officers to be “proactive” by focusing on nine priorities, and quelling CCOs’ fears that their elevated roles will expose them to “increased personal liability.”
