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Summary: As a financial advisor, are you operating a practice or a business? Perhaps the answer is neither. You could be in a transitional phase, a sort of “no man’s land,” if you will, between the two models. And you might not even be aware of it.
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Summary: Answering critics who claim the Labor Department caved to industry interests in issuing its final fiduciary rule, a top official countered that the new regulations will result in “major reform," while not ruling out additional government action.
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Summary: After much anticipation, the Department of Labor’s Conflict of Interest rule was finalized on April 6, 2016. Over the next several months, the industry will digest the new requirements with an eye towards meeting the initial phased-in effective date of April 2017 and be fully compliant by January 1, 2018.
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Summary: Rebranding is an ideal way to address these challenges: realigning companies with fundamental changes in the marketplace and revealing new paths to grow your professional services firm. Let’s step you through a tried-and-true process of self-assessment and re-adjustment, so you can recalibrate and reenergize your firm's brand.
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Summary: Throughout SIFMA’s Private Client Conference in New York City Thursday were discussions about the major demographic challenges confronting the financial advisory industry and about how firms are responding. The issues are the same ones that the industry has been facing for some years now, but they are becoming more critical as the populations of advisors and their clients age and American society grows more diverse.
