Caitlin Zucal
June 19, 2013
With FINRA clearly stating its social media guidelines, the question many advisors are asking themselves is this: what do I do now? Luckily, there are three simple steps to avoiding regulatory fines and keeping your advisors actively online.
Jack Singer
June 18, 2013
Like professional football players, most financial advisors maintain an external persona of confidence, but if advisors are honest with themselves, many insecurities –including avoiding contacting aggressive clients during market collapses, or fearing that they will look weak if they can’t think quickly on their feet when challenged by their clients—linger beneath the surface.
Barry Glassman
June 12, 2013
With the passing of Dodd-Frank, the SEC is paving the the way to adopt a uniform fiduciary standard for broker/dealers and investment advisors. Barry Glassman of Glassman Wealth says that there's no feasible way for brokers to uphold the same fiduciary standard to which RIA are held. He writes, "for them to come under the fiduciary standard as it currently exists, their businesses would have to split up into so many micro pieces that it would be disastrous for them." But the alternative, as it is being proposed, is for the very meaning of the fiduciary standard to change.
Kathleen Burns Kingsbury
June 11, 2013
Globally, women are more economically powerful than ever before. Kathleen Kingsbury write that, despite this financial influence, many women still struggle to express their personal power in the workplace.
Steve Dowden
June 5, 2013
With the multitude of challenges confronting investors today, consumers need financial advice more than ever before. But advisors must first capture their attention and engage them. Steve Dowden says advisors need to build a platform to shout their message from.
Caleb Brown
June 5, 2013
Financial planning firms are constantly under pressure to do more with less to keep up with client demands, industry developments, and economic circumstances. Caleb Brown says that this can be difficult due to the combination of unclear expectations, lack of structured training, and limited formal mentoring.
Tracey Flaherty
June 3, 2013
How could a financial advisor help a new client who wants to retire, but hasn’t saved much, doesn’t know how much to set aside and worries about running out of money in old age?
Dale Brown
May 16, 2013
It is vital that firms and financial advisors be aware of the stakes involved in the SEC's suit against the SIPC writes FSI president and chief executive of the Financial Services Institute, Dale E. Brown.
Matt Matrisian
May 13, 2013
Any firm that wants to grow needs to consider how to best manage one of its key assets—its people. Unfortunately, Matt Matirisian reminds us, although most advisors are great entrepreneurs and visionaries, they are not necessarily good people managers.
David Marcus
April 30, 2013
A bias toward domestic investment is understandable, but the U.S., big as it is, is not the world. We exist in a global economy and for advisors and their clients to restrict their thinking to within our borders means missing out on some tremendous companies and potentially lucrative investments.
Dawn Bennett
April 16, 2013
Investors (and advisors) should be focused on the true facts of the U.S. economy and corporations and tune out the hype and happy talk from the media and Fed heads. Instead investors should focus on the real data.
Laura Kogen
April 8, 2013
Before you can begin tailoring your approach to working with women, you first need to understand some of the attributes that make them uniquely different from male clients. Blogger Laura Kogen examines five key differences in how men and women communicate, relate interpersonally, learn, are hardwired, and view wealth.
Frank Pape
March 21, 2013
Advisors need to position themselves to help clients navigate the new tax landscape, particularly when it comes to juggling the variety of mutual funds in a client's portfolio.
Andrea Collatz
March 17, 2013
It’s clear that mobile is everywhere. It’s no longer enough for tech vendors to offer great technology, they need to offer it in a mobile-compatible format as well.
Paula Vasan
March 14, 2013
From future predictions to fee inquiries: Here are a few inquiries that aggravate financial advisors the most.
