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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?

Financial Services Explained, Pt. 3: The Levels of Independent Advice

Added on December 2016 in Form an RIA
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Summary: This is the third in a series of blog postings--Clark Explains the Industry--that explores the dynamics of, and the definitions around, the professional financial advice-giving industry.

RIAs have been slow to prepare for the DOL fiduciary rule

Added on December 2016 in Form an RIA
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Summary: Registered investment advisers are mesmerized by the Labor Department regulation that is introducing the most sweeping changes to financial advice in a generation — but not enough of them are preparing for it.

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