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Summary: Newly minted financial planning assistant Airionne Givens didn't have a lot of money when she was growing up in St. Louis. And she saw plenty of other African-American families who struggled with college costs, retirement saving and other financial challenges. Until Givens went to college, she had never heard of, or knew about, financial planning. But once she did, she was hooked. "I wanted to help people who were in the same predicament as the people I knew, and I saw that this was a way I could do that," Givens says.
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Summary: Fiduciary advocates are gearing up once again to engage in a monthlong debate about the importance of the two fiduciary rulemakings being considered by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Labor.
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Summary: Yes, I know employee financial advisors don’t have shareholders per se. But I suggest to the advisors I talk to every day that they are the CEOs of their own practices, each a unique profit center within a corporation that is measured and valued daily. And each advisor’s shareholders are the families that have a stake in the relative success or failure of that advisor’s enterprise.
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Summary: You may have heard recently that the financial planning profession is under attack. Advisors are in grave danger of being rendered irrelevant, the Cassandras warn, by the online investment advisory platforms: the so-called robo advisors. What you don’t hear is that this is nothing new. In fact, the short history of the financial planning profession can be viewed as a series of evolutionary responses to different mortal challenges — all of which, in one way or another, have sharply questioned the relevance and value of financial planners.
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Summary: A contingency plan is the first step in a succession plan. If you can take that first step, you are closer to your goal of safeguarding your clients, your employees, the value of your firm and your families. In this artcle, Mary Ann Buchanan provide 3 actionable steps to begin your contingency plan.
