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How to keep client data safe from hackers

Added on January 2017 in Form an RIA
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Summary: Clients’ financial information is a valuable commodity that is vulnerable to cyber thieves, and the sheer number of threats makes it possible that an advisory firm could come under attack.

Selling Fiduciary: A Prototype for Independent RIAs

Added on January 2017 in Form an RIA
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Summary: According to Dan Moisand, managing partner at Moisand Fitzgerald Tamayo, the Florida fee-only financial planning and wealth management firm, more and more clients and prospects are asking about a ‘fiduciary duty.’ “And even better,” reports Moisand, those clients and prospects “understand what it means: financial advice in their best interest.”

The Long-Term Benefits of Integrated Technology

Added on December 2016 in Form an RIA
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Summary: Operational efficiencies in these areas enable your business to do what it does best better, while also growing in a scalable manner. So a key question your firm needs to answer is: will the technology solution for processing and compliance be a platform system or a point system?

Financial advisors weigh in on future of DOL fiduciary rule

Added on December 2016 in Form an RIA
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Summary: The U.S. Department of Labor's new fiduciary rule is set to begin implementation on April 10 and is expected to affect more than $3 trillion of retirement assets in the United States. It requires financial advisors and brokers to act in the best interests of their clients when dealing with retirement accounts. That regulation will affect investors' retirement accounts and the relationships they share with their advisors [VIDEO CONTENT]

Is It (Finally) Time to Go Independent?

Added on December 2016 in Form an RIA
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Summary: The safety of a big organization. The familiarity with the people, technology, and processes. The comfort of not having to manage all the details of a small business. And yet you keep wondering: Is independence for me?

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