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Selecting a TAMP Is a Fiduciary Decision
April 19, 2019 | Financial Advisor
Hiring a TAMP is not the same as choosing a phone service or financial planning software provider.
Op Ed: The SEC Needs to Keep a Decades-Old Promise to the Investing Public
April 16, 2019 | WealthManagement.com
The brokerage industry loves Regulation Best Interest. Investors shouldn't.
TAMP Users: Watch Out for This Fiduciary Land Mine
January 18, 2019 | WealthManagement.com
Advisors, beware of vendors offering “soft” practice management services that are meant to help your business more than your clients. The SEC is watching.
4 Innovative Pricing Structures for Wealth Management Service
November 29, 2018 | ThinkAdvisor
An increasing variety of fee structures is a boon for previously underserved clients — or in this case, advisors.
A Simple Recipe for Minimizing 401k Lawsuits
November 27, 2018 | 401K Specialist
Plan fiduciaries are held to a high standards. The liabilities for failing to meet those standards can be, well...serious
Chip and Skip’s Excellent Adventure: Alaska’s Crow Pass
August 20, 2018 | RIABiz
This year the Excellent Adventure crew assembled in Girdwood, Alaska for a trek up the Crow Pass Trail, which meanders through a rain forest inhabited by black bears, grizzly, and moose.
10 Ways to Write Better Articles
August 17, 2018 | Advisor Perspectives
You may not win a Pulitzer Prize by following these guidelines, but they will help you more effectively communicate about the issues and ideas that are most important to you and your clients.
The Curious Case of the SEC’s Best Interest Standard
July 9, 2018 | WealthManagement.com
Why did the SEC choose the road less traveled?
Opinion: “Fiduciary”—An Attitude, Not a Law
June 13, 2018 | WealthManagement.com
Both the DOL and the SEC turned a concept that is simple enough to be captured in a fortune cookie into an indecipherable instruction manual. It’s time to re-simplify what a fiduciary is.
Courtesy as a Competitive Advantage
June 1, 2018 | WealthManagement.com
Unreturned phone calls and emails, not portfolio performance, are the top reasons clients fire their financial advisors, according to research.
Five Ideas to Emphasize Your Humanness
May 25, 2018 | Advisor Perspectives
In an ever-changing world filled with new technology and tools, there are some things that a robot will never be able to do. Find out how to navigate the future to position you and your practice for success.
Why the Race to Zero Doesn’t Exist
March 7, 2018 | Financial Planning
When it comes to investment products, everybody gets paid.
The Industrialization of Asset Management
February 20, 2018 | Investment News
Model marketplaces make asset management services more widely available, but the model portfolios they offer are far from interchangeable.
February 9, 2018 | WealthManagement.com
The annual tsunami of prognostications about how the stock market and the economy will perform in 2018 was beginning to slow. Then the stock market had a major hiccup and the punditry scrambled back to its soap boxes to give us another dose.