Howell’s eponymous RIA in Virginia is one of the relatively few in the nation owned by a person of color. And he’s trying to have his firm make a difference by working with Treasury Department programs that help encourage investments in neighborhoods that lack access to financing.
The events of 2020 led Natixis to implement several new initiatives, including creating a social justice matching-gift program, supporting the global expansion of MADE, the firm’s Boston-based group supporting racial and ethnic diversity, and incorporating shared values-based leadership training.
The first year of a client relationship is a window of opportunity to create strong first impressions, and email automation can help with this.
The four-adviser, eight-person Hambleton Fieler Group is based in Cincinnati, Ohio, and will be Rockefeller's first private wealth team in Ohio.
Main Street Financial Life Advisors, founded in 1999 by J. Joseph Roman, is based in Moorestown, New Jersey.
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The president of the $16 billion RIA told attendees at the InvestmentNews Women Adviser Summit that that it's too early to guess when things will get back to normal.
Firm leaders understand the cybersecurity threat is real. But have broker-dealers taken appropriate precautions to protect advisers and their clients?
The four-person, two-adviser unit will partner with an existing group at UBS Private Wealth Management in Kenwood, Ohio.
Selling away charges are at the center of three large customer complaints against ex-broker John Krohn. In 2018, Finra reached a settlement with Krohn in which he was suspended from the industry for three months and paid a fine of $10,000.
Advisers should focus on reducing client attrition and adding more new clients, and make certain they're charging a fee in line with the market.
The insurance company's chief growth officer succeeds Walter White, who will retire at year-end.
The more fee-based business you do, the more imperative it is to focus on current clients and your ability to hold onto them.
The new tool, called PracticeLab, is similar to the services advisers are getting from custodians and other business partners.
Less than a week after notching its 15th deal in as many months, Toronto-based CI Financial announced the acquisition of an Atlanta-based RIA with $4.7 billion in client assets.
The firm is cautiously increasing hiring at the moment, essentially new advisers, but at a lower rate than in the past. Training financial advisers takes time and is also expensive, with a high percentage of trainees typically not making the cut.
Fuller, who had been executive vice president of Lincoln Group, succeeds Mark Mullin, who becomes board chairman.
The eight-adviser Monteverde Group is based in Pittsburgh.
Is the advisory industry capable of continuing the transformation that began during the pandemic in order to shape its next phase?
The challenge with reflecting on what’s happened is that it is all so intensely personal, yet it has hit every person.
