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Summary: There are many decisions that breakaway brokers need to make when setting up their own firm, among them its business structure, which will have tax implications.
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Summary: Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., introduced a bill as a discussion draft that would allow a victim of a cyberattack to access the attacker’s computer in order to gather information about the attack to share with law enforcement or to stop the hacker from continuing to access their network.
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Summary: Meeting objectives requires a family office to hold and transact business involving highly sensitive information about family members, their finances and their venture partners. The same technology on family offices and their clients depend on to communicate instantly and globally makes them compelling targets of criminals worldwide. Protecting client families from financial loss and harm requires family offices to be hands-on about matters their clients may have never taken into account.
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Summary: Whether you come from an RIA or broker-dealer background, starting your own practice is both exciting and challenging. You’ll find you need to be an expert in all the support services you may have taken for granted when you worked for a larger firm, such as compliance, technology and marketing.
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Summary: The past couple of years have been the hardest of my life. My three-year-old solo-RIA almost ground to a halt through client attrition, and only with a complete rebrand with lots of help from fellow advisers and a CPA, is it starting to come back to life. I’ve questioned whether I can effectively run a business and if my emotions, finances and marriage can withstand the struggles of trying to build one.
