Prepping your firm for sale
Owners who want to sell must do their homework and put in the difficult effort to prepare for sale
What was NAPFA thinking?
Bert Whitehead's exit suggests NAPFA can't stand disagreement in its upper ranks
Momentum building on tax reform
As senators invite the public to contact them with ideas on tax reform, advisers should speak up
An important truth about the adviser-client relationship: Your clients own you
Clients are yours to lose, so provide good advice to your clients will stick around
Catch the impact investing wave now
It's surprising that most advisers remain agnostic about impact investing, even while client demand grows.
Heading to court, but which one?
Increasing transparency would go a long way in deflecting criticism that the SEC steers cases to its owns judges
The loudest shouldn’t speak for everyone
Time for advisers to tell industry groups pushing hard against a fiduciary rule that they're tired of the rhetoric — and that they're not acting in advisers' best interests.
Banner year for enforcement, SEC’s Andrew Ceresney says
The following is an edited excerpt of a speech given Nov. 21 by Andrew Ceresney, director of the…
What’s good for individual investors is good for the whole industry
The financial industry must take every action it can to weed out bad actors and rebuild investor confidence, including beefing up background checks for brokers.
Have protocols in place to secure access to client data
When it comes to the client data for which you're responsible, protecting clients' privacy and finances must come first.