February 15, 2021
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Viral or vicious? Financial advice blows up on TikTok
In the past, advisers viewed social media as a marketing tool that targeted only millennial and Gen Z clients. That narrative has changed.
What clients won’t see on this year’s 1099-R form
Be ready to help worried clients (and their accountants), who will be calling you about 'mistakes' on their 1099-Rs regarding distributions from their IRAs. What they'll be calling about won’t be what’s on their form, but rather what’s not on there.
GameStop fireworks are likely to bog down in a regulatory slog
Those who oversee the markets are not built to react quickly to disruptions within them. Theirs is a world of study and deliberation. They have to listen to a wide range of public input. and they often leave much regulatory ambiguity in place.
FSI opposes union organizing bill because of potential effect on advisers
A change in test governing whether workers are classified as employees or independent contractors could upend the business models of FSI members.
Women’s retirement plans torpedoed by COVID
Nearly three-quarters of women with investible assets of $100,000 or more say the pandemic has negatively impacted their ability to retire, but as that is happening, more women are turning to financial professionals for advice, according to a Nationwide survey.
