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YOUR PRACTICE OPINION FEB 22, 2017
Client communication strategies for uncertain markets

What severs ties is poor communication around the impacts of cyclical market gyrations on the portfolio.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 22, 2017
Purshe Kaplan Sterling to pay $3.4M in restitution for overcharging Native American tribe

Firm will also pay a $750,000 fine to Finra for failing to supervise broker who sold tribe non-traded REITs and BDCs.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH FEB 21, 2017
Robo-advisers and human advisers adopt each others' biggest advantages

Digital advisers are hiring live planners and advice firms are deploying automation.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 21, 2017
Some Merrill Lynch advisers upset with move away from commissions

Brokers say commissions serve certain clients better, and investors who prefer them are pushing back.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 21, 2017
Former Wells Fargo broker barred for parking fraud

The broker allegedly used the firm's parking garage stamp to validate parking garage tickets worth $731.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 17, 2017
Acting SEC chair scales back enforcement unit's subpoena powers

In a roll-back of post-Madoff change, requests will go through acting division director, say sources.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH FEB 16, 2017
Dominate your social media in an hour a week

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 16, 2017
U.S millionaire households hit 6.8 million

Count is up 4% over 2015; percentage of millionaires is flat and wealth more concentrated

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 15, 2017
Adviser's Consultant: Creating a new service for clients with smaller nest eggs

Denver-based family office opens new practice to serve less wealthy clients

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 15, 2017
Report shows few advisers examined by California oversight office

State's Department of Business Oversight examined only 6.2% of state-registered investment advisers and 0.8% of broker-dealers in 2015-16.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 15, 2017
Finra expels Red River Securities for oil and gas fraud

Barred CEO Brian Keith Hardwick and firm ordered to pay $24.6M to investors

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 15, 2017
Online Platforms Help Advisors Add Alternatives

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 14, 2017
SEC, Morgan Stanley settle charges related to inverse ETFs

The wirehouse is settling charges related to single inverse ETF investments it recommended to advisory clients, many of whom experienced losses.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 14, 2017
Finra bars former Wells Fargo rep for churning accounts of 93-year-old

Illinois broker Matthew Maczko earned more than $640,000 from $3 million in assets

Working to spark a global movement for pro bono financial planning
YOUR PRACTICE OPINION FEB 14, 2017
Working to spark a global movement for pro bono financial planning

Many lives would be changed if pro bono financial planning could be brought to vulnerable people around the globe.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 13, 2017
Raymond James attracts $460 million team from Morgan Stanley

Three advisers, planner and three staff members join Mt. Laurel, N.J. office.

YOUR PRACTICE OPINION FEB 10, 2017
There's never been a better time to provide life insurance advice

Clients need help with this last, largest, most-neglected asset on their balance sheets like never before

SEC charges Connecticut RIA with stealing $3.95M from investors
YOUR PRACTICE RIAS FEB 10, 2017
SEC charges Connecticut RIA with stealing $3.95M from investors

The regulator alleges the founder of Sentinel Growth Fund Management stole from investors to settle private lawsuit.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 09, 2017
Women cope better financially with later-in-life divorce than men: CPA survey

Many more older women apt to seek out financial advice, increase savings and spend less

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH FEB 09, 2017
Got client passwords? That means custody to SEC

Advisers still unintentionally falling into trap of custody provisions passed after Madoff swindle.