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Big Banks Are Losing Ground To An Emerging Force Of Unknown Firms

Added on October 2014 in Join an RIA
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Summary: The financial crisis did curious things to Wall Street. Firms were gone overnight, once-powerful CEOs were never heard from again, and a whole new regime of power reorganized itself from the chaos.
 

Looking Backward: A Recent Retiree Reflects on Succession Planning

Added on October 2014 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: Richard Sawyer, founder and past president of Norton Financial Services, a firm based in the greater Portland, Maine area, had worked in the financial services industry for more than two decades when a brush with cancer made him start seriously thinking about his retirement.

Coaches Corner: Nixing the Top 4 Excuses for Not Building Systems

Added on October 2014 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Your time is your most valuable asset as an advisor. Yet as a coach to advisors, I’ve observed how so many of you abuse the time you have by reinventing the wheel over and over again. Doing so only leads to eating up more of your time and effort. It also leads to one glaring realization: the need for systems and processes in everything you do.

New LinkedIn tool could help advisers with marketing, compliance

Added on October 2014 in Form an RIA
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Summary: A tool recently introduced by the online professional network LinkedIn could help investment advisers and brokers with both marketing and compliance. LinkedIn has made it possible for users to download an archive of their data with one click. Information that is exported includes a list of first-degree connections, endorsements, comments made in LinkedIn groups and other content that has been posted in the system.

Betterment Allies With Fidelity to Launch Betterment Institutional for Advisors

Added on October 2014 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Betterment, the four-year-old robo-advisor, announced Wednesday the launch of Betterment Institutional, which will provide advisors with a self-branded, automated platform to serve existing clients and attract new clients with Betterment’s investing, tax harvesting and automated rebalancing offerings.

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