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Stressed and blessed: Women want to talk finances with other women
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 13, 2023
Stressed and blessed: Women want to talk finances with other women

Women are making headway with their personal financial goals, and they prefer talking with other women about money, a new Fidelity survey shows.

By Joanne Cleaver
Workplace digital tools: Prohibition alone won’t work
YOUR PRACTICE OPINION MAR 10, 2023
Workplace digital tools: Prohibition alone won’t work

The SEC doesn’t care whether advisors or staff are banned from using apps or tools. What’s important to them is that firms fulfill their capture and retention responsibilities.

By Kim Crawford Goodman
Payout grids for independent broker-dealers
YOUR PRACTICE BROKER DEALERS MAR 10, 2023
Payout grids for independent broker-dealers

See how much brokers earn on sales of various products at 43 independent broker-dealers, according to data the firms provided to InvestmentNews Research.

By InvestmentNews
US SIF names new leader at a precarious time for ESG
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 09, 2023
US SIF names new leader at a precarious time for ESG

Maria Lettini will take the helm of the influential group as sustainable investing has become a political rallying cry for some state leaders.

By Emile Hallez
Regulators make noise, and advisors lose jobs
YOUR PRACTICE BROKER DEALERS MAR 09, 2023
Regulators make noise, and advisors lose jobs

Financial advisors should pay attention to regulators' concerns, since it's often advisors or firm executives who don't follow industry rules to the letter who may be discharged.

By Bruce Kelly
Fledgling IFP Securities' net capital deficit was an 'accounting error,' CEO says
YOUR PRACTICE BROKER DEALERS MAR 09, 2023
Fledgling IFP Securities' net capital deficit was an 'accounting error,' CEO says

CEO Bill Hamm said the net capital deficit of $120,000 shown in IFP's Focus report was the result of accrual accounting.

By Bruce Kelly
Purpose just as powerful as profits as a magnet for women: J.P. Morgan's Lemkau
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 08, 2023
Purpose just as powerful as profits as a magnet for women: J.P. Morgan's Lemkau

Speaking at the American College's Women Working in Wealth conference, the CEO of J.P. Morgan Wealth Management said the firm aims to win clients early and then ease them into ever more personalized advisory services.

By Joanne Cleaver
Sanctuary fired CEO Dickson over alleged conduct issue
YOUR PRACTICE RIAS MAR 08, 2023
Sanctuary fired CEO Dickson over alleged conduct issue

But the allegations cited in Dickson's BrokerCheck report are not specific; Dickson had led the firm since 2018.

By Bruce Kelly
Gender diversity gives funds a performance lead
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 08, 2023
Gender diversity gives funds a performance lead

Investment teams in the highest quartile for gender diversity outperformed others by 45 basis points, according to Willis Towers Watson.

By ESG Clarity
Women advisors' take on succession planning
YOUR PRACTICE OPINION MAR 08, 2023
Women advisors' take on succession planning

Several unique elements affect women advisors' planning, including a greater focus on the established relationships between staff and clients and on the maintenance of culture within their practice.

By Hannah Buschbom
Comerica to use Ameriprise as broker-dealer for  100 advisors
YOUR PRACTICE BROKER DEALERS MAR 06, 2023
Comerica to use Ameriprise as broker-dealer for 100 advisors

Ameriprise jumped into the bank broker market in 2017 when it acquired Investment Professionals Inc.

By Bruce Kelly
UBS CEO gets 11% pay hike
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 06, 2023
UBS CEO gets 11% pay hike

Ralph Hamers received $13 million for his second full year in the job while the overall bonus pool for the rest of the firm was cut 10% to $3.3 billion.

By Bloomberg
Striving to win at compassion? You've missed the point
YOUR PRACTICE OPINION MAR 03, 2023
Striving to win at compassion? You've missed the point

As a management tool, compassion is hard to execute and easy to love.

By Sonya Lutter
Finra encourages brokers to increase scrutiny, controls when using finfluencers
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH MAR 01, 2023
Finra encourages brokers to increase scrutiny, controls when using finfluencers

The regulator releases an update to an exam sweep probing how member firms tout themselves on social media.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
LPL facing SEC investigation into unapproved personal devices
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH MAR 01, 2023
LPL facing SEC investigation into unapproved personal devices

LPL's disclosure follows a crackdown by US regulators on financial firms' failure to monitor employee communications on messaging apps.

By Bruce Kelly
Get back to your roots and market
YOUR PRACTICE OPINION MAR 01, 2023
Get back to your roots and market

As an advisor's client base grows, more of their time is spent servicing existing clients, which leaves little time for finding new ones.

By Scott Hanson
Advisory firm looks for clients right before they need advice
YOUR PRACTICE RIAS MAR 01, 2023
Advisory firm looks for clients right before they need advice

Michigan-based Innovia Wealth concentrates on entrepreneurs who are on the brink of striking it rich.

By Jeff Benjamin
Biden plans to name Julie Su as next Secretary of Labor
YOUR PRACTICE RETIREMENT PLANNING FEB 28, 2023
Biden plans to name Julie Su as next Secretary of Labor

Su, who would become the first Asian American Cabinet secretary in Biden’s administration, would replace Marty Walsh.

By Bloomberg
Merrill Private Wealth promotes Hans to lead unit
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 27, 2023
Merrill Private Wealth promotes Hans to lead unit

For the last six years, Lindsay Hans has headed Merrill's Northeast and Mid Atlantic Divisions. She succeeds Don Plaus, who's retiring.

By Bruce Kelly
10 cities with the highest concentrations of financial advisors in 2023
YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 27, 2023
10 cities with the highest concentrations of financial advisors in 2023

Some cities have far higher ratios of personal financial advisors to adult inhabitants than others.

By InvestmentNews