From ThinkAdvisor
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Summary: When the stock market plummeted as a result of COVID-19 and the economic uncertainty it created, financial advisors saw an uptick in the number of investment-focused clients looking for advice. After all, the Dow suffering the most severe drop since 1987 was reason enough to drive investors into a state of panic.
From Advisor Perspectives
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Summary: Quentin Marshall hired three people over the past two months. He filled the roles without meeting any of them in person.
Recruiting during a pandemic requires “breaking down a lot of prejudices about how to do things,” said Marshall, head of private banking at U.K. lender Weatherbys. “Once you get over this idea you must be sharing the same oxygen molecules as them, you just get on with it.”
From ThinkAdvisor
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Summary: As with other segments of our society and economy, COVID-19 is changing the independent advisor business. To determine how — and how much — in early March, our firm launched an ongoing survey to track behavioral changes in the industry within advisory firms in response to the pandemic.
From IRIS
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Summary: The 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver left the Sea-to-Sky highway from Vancouver to Whistler along with many other game’s venues which stand ten years later and will likely be a reminder decades from now of the one-in-a-lifetime experience some of us witnessed.
From InvestmentNews
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Summary: Our world has drastically changed over the last few weeks as the coronavirus disrupted the economy. That just makes the work of improving Americans’ financial awareness and financial literacy all the more important as we approach National Financial Literacy Month in April.
