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Beware Robos and Regulators, Custodians Warn

Added on January 2015 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Advisors will spend lots of time this year figuring out how to adapt to new technology and to potential changes in regulations, according to executives at major custodians and tech vendors.

Financial adviser moves set to pick up in 2015

Added on January 2015 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: If the past is any indicator, adviser moves are likely to pick up steam in the first quarter, according to an analysis of InvestmentNews' Advisers on the Move database, which tracks teams of advisers and brokers changing firms.

Advisers find new ways to attract increasingly wealthy population — women

Added on January 2015 in Thought Leadership
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Summary; The nation's changing wealth demographics have encouraged many advisory firms over the past few years to strengthen their focus on women, who represent about 45% of U.S. millionaires and are on their way to becoming the majority.

5 Disruptors That Will Transform Advisors' Businesses

Added on January 2015 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Independent financial advisors constitute a young profession, but they and their partners over the past 35 years—the years that Investment Advisor magazine has been published—have always helped shape societal trends, technology and regulation. For this profession to thrive in the years ahead, it must harness five major transformative trends already in process.

Stressed-out Gen X and the search for a more 'livable' life

Added on January 2015 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: We're just overwhelmed with life." That was my response to an attorney looking for insight into the obstacles facing Generation X. I'd referred a number of 30- and 40-something financial-planning clients to this attorney. All were in need of estate-planning documents.

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