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Advisers revisit bond ladders as rates rise
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 29, 2018
Advisers revisit bond ladders as rates rise

As interest rates head higher, pushing bond prices down, advisers seek safety in individual bonds.

When markets fall, will your clients remain calm or panic?
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 29, 2018
When markets fall, will your clients remain calm or panic?

Advisers are dealing with a generation of investors who have never lived through a prolonged downturn.

Tax Planning Mastery: 5 Strategies for Year-End Success
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 29, 2018
Tax Planning Mastery: 5 Strategies for Year-End Success

While the new tax laws will complicate year-end planning, there are some moves you can make for your clients

Understand where your firm's growth is really coming from
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 27, 2018
Understand where your firm's growth is really coming from

The 2018 <i>InvestmentNews</i> Study of Pricing &amp; Profitability shows a lot of advisers' success is tied to market gains, but there are ways to grow more reliably.

Why diversity and inclusion efforts are a firm's best investment
YOUR PRACTICE OPINION OCT 27, 2018
Why diversity and inclusion efforts are a firm's best investment

Appreciation for the different perspectives that inform people's financial needs is critical to the role advisers aspire to play in people's lives

6 myths about millennials that could harm adviser businesses
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 27, 2018
6 myths about millennials that could harm adviser businesses

Negative stereotypes of young investors are preventing many firms from courting this valuable potential client pool.

The future of new-adviser training is now
YOUR PRACTICE OPINION OCT 26, 2018
The future of new-adviser training is now

The diversity of new advisers entering the industry adds to the challenge of getting them up to speed

Wells Fargo places two executives on leave
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 25, 2018
Wells Fargo places two executives on leave

Move occurs amid regulatory investigations into the bank's sales practices.

Stock market pullback brings out the buyers
YOUR PRACTICE EQUITIES OCT 24, 2018
Stock market pullback brings out the buyers

While some investors react with alarm to market decline, others see it as an opportunity to buy low

Stifel, First Republic post top recruiting gains in Q3, as wirehouses continue to lose brokers
YOUR PRACTICE BROKER DEALERS OCT 23, 2018
Stifel, First Republic post top recruiting gains in Q3, as wirehouses continue to lose brokers

Overall, broker and adviser movement slowed during the quarter, with 101 teams shifting firms compared to 124 at this time last year.

CFP Board issues white paper on increasing diversity in financial planning
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 23, 2018
CFP Board issues white paper on increasing diversity in financial planning

Less than 3.5% of the 80,000 certified financial planners in the United States in 2017 were black or Latino.

3 moves advisers can make now to stair-step their succession
YOUR PRACTICE OPINION OCT 23, 2018
3 moves advisers can make now to stair-step their succession

Many advisers lack a written succession plan, including 60% of those who will be retiring within five years

LPL snatches $3.7 billion Exemplar Financial from Cetera
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 22, 2018
LPL snatches $3.7 billion Exemplar Financial from Cetera

Recruiting effort is latest salvo in bitter rivalry between LPL and Cetera.

LPL rolls back recruiting policy aimed at driving more assets to its corporate RIA
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 22, 2018
LPL rolls back recruiting policy aimed at driving more assets to its corporate RIA

LPL erases $50 million hurdle for new advisers to join so-called hybrid firms.

Goldman moves digital bank to wealth unit
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH OCT 22, 2018
Goldman moves digital bank to wealth unit

Marcus, which makes personal loans online, will be pitched to the wealth management division's clients.

Don't be fooled by the numbers — the industry is in a dangerously vulnerable state
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 20, 2018
Don't be fooled by the numbers — the industry is in a dangerously vulnerable state

Last year's stock market gains helped advisers turn in solid growth in assets and revenue, but that growth could disappear in the next market downturn.

Paul Allen's $26 billion estate could take years to unravel
YOUR PRACTICE RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 18, 2018
Paul Allen's $26 billion estate could take years to unravel

Microsoft co-founder's holdings akin to 'a major corporation.'

LPL reels in $520 million team from rival Cambridge
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 18, 2018
LPL reels in $520 million team from rival Cambridge

LPL has been targeting teams from rivals throughout the year.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 17, 2018
Real life fearless girl at the New York Stock Exchange

Confidence helped her gain work as one of the first and youngest full-time female traders at the NYSE.

Can investment advisers disclose away all conflicts? Can brokers?
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OCT 16, 2018
Can investment advisers disclose away all conflicts? Can brokers?

There's still disagreement over whether disclosure and informed client consent are enough to satisfy a fiduciary's obligation to act in the client's best interest.