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Summary: No one today makes even casual financial decisions in a vacuum. If you want to book a vacation, you check TripAdvisor. Before you invest in a restaurant, you fire up Yelp. Angie’s List is the go-to platform for when you want to find a babysitter, plumber or dentist.
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Summary: In his book “The Hard Thing About Hard Things,” Silicon Valley entrepreneur Ben Horowitz discusses the hardest things about building and running a business. One of those “hard things” is that as the CEO or founder of a business, you know things that no one else knows, so you have a perspective that no one else has.
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Summary: January paper released by the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard detailed regulatory and fiduciary issues on the table in 2016: the Department of Labor's fiduciary rules for IRA advisors; the Securities and Exchange Commission's fiduciary standard for brokers; the CFP Board's announced review of its best interest standard for financial planners; and the Institute's own “Best Practices for Fiduciary Financial
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Summary: Advisors are facing new challenges, whether they are harnessing the power of technology, confronting the prevailing downward pressure on fees, managing the impact of demographic shifts, or mastering a fast-moving market. What has worked in the past may not necessarily work in the future. But for those who can evolve with the industry, there will be greater opportunities ahead.
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Summary: Marc Freedman, chief executive of Freedman Financial in Peabody, Mass., got his start in radio in 2012. He paid $2,000 a week to host an hour-long, live call-in show every Sunday at 4 p.m. on a major talk-radio station in Boston, 96.9 FM. As part of his arrangement, he got a producer and a series of promotional ads over the course of the week.
