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Despite rising awareness of DEI issues, change is slow to occur
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUL 03, 2023
Despite rising awareness of DEI issues, change is slow to occur

While underrepresented ethnicities make up about 15% of new CFPs each year, the new arrivals barely move each group’s overall presence in the profession.

By Joanne Cleaver
How to normalize allyship
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUN 27, 2023
How to normalize allyship

Here's how men can step up and into allyship. It's not that hard.

By Joanne Cleaver
Women breadwinners less engaged with household finances
WOMEN ADVISOR COMMUNITY JUN 13, 2023
Women breadwinners less engaged with household finances

Even when they're bringing home the bacon, women tend not to be as involved in household finances as their male partners.

By Joanne Cleaver
Alex. Brown adds Morgan Stanley advisor managing $509 million
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 05, 2023
Alex. Brown adds Morgan Stanley advisor managing $509 million

Miami-based Eva Marina Ovejero has more than two decades of experience.

By InvestmentNews
Advisor managing $475 million at Bank of America Private Bank joins LPL
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 05, 2023
Advisor managing $475 million at Bank of America Private Bank joins LPL

Amy Lawrence is launching Gorilla Investments Co. in Miami.

By InvestmentNews
Advisors connect rising women philanthropists to their tribes
RIA NEWS MAY 26, 2023
Advisors connect rising women philanthropists to their tribes

As Gen X and baby boomer women realize they qualify as philanthropists, new platforms and groups are emerging to equip them with community and context.

By Joanne Cleaver
New diversity report makes familiar recommendations
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 19, 2023
New diversity report makes familiar recommendations

The report from the CFP Board outlines specific steps proven to establish and cultivate equity for employees at all levels with financial services organizations.

By Joanne Cleaver
Kate Healy to step down as head of Center for Financial Planning, start new firm
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 17, 2023
Kate Healy to step down as head of Center for Financial Planning, start new firm

Healy, a long-time executive at TD Ameritrade, was appointed to head the center last summer to lead its efforts to elevate the financial planning profession with programs in diversity and inclusion.

By Gregg Greenberg
Women's fear about retirement cuts across party lines
RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 16, 2023
Women's fear about retirement cuts across party lines

Just over half of women who are 25 and older said they don't consider themselves financially secure; 77% of low-income women said the same.

By Gregg Greenberg
Sometimes mothers do know best
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 11, 2023
Sometimes mothers do know best

Rising women advisors apply their mothers' and mothers-in-laws' advice to grow their careers.

By Joanne Cleaver
Goldman to pay $215 million to settle case on underpaying women
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION MAY 09, 2023
Goldman to pay $215 million to settle case on underpaying women

The trial, which had been scheduled for next month in New York, would have provided a rare public forum for testimony about inequality inside the financial industry.

By Bloomberg
10 IBDs with the highest portion of female reps in 2022
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 08, 2023
10 IBDs with the highest portion of female reps in 2022

Women are underrepresented in the advice industry, but at some independent broker-dealers, they make up a significant portion of the producing reps.

By InvestmentNews
Why the ESG backlash has little effect on corporations
OPINION MAY 03, 2023
Why the ESG backlash has little effect on corporations

Politicians' manufactured controversies are having minimal impact in boardrooms.

By Carolyn Berkowitz
Liz Nesvold joins Cresset as president
RIA NEWS MAY 02, 2023
Liz Nesvold joins Cresset as president

Nesvold is exiting Raymond James to take on an expansive new role at Cresset's $30 billion platform.

By Jeff Benjamin
Schwab's Liz Ann Sonders says return to normal could be a rocky ride
EQUITIES APR 26, 2023
Schwab's Liz Ann Sonders says return to normal could be a rocky ride

Speaking at the Morningstar conference this week, the popular strategist said there are still excesses that need to be wrung out of the economy.

By Jeff Benjamin
Merrill COO Kirstin Hill to leave firm, following Sieg's departure
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT APR 24, 2023
Merrill COO Kirstin Hill to leave firm, following Sieg's departure

Some of Hill's responsibilities will be handed off to Jeff Busconi, who holds the newly created position of head of wealth management strategy, products and services.

By Emile Hallez
Women gain momentum in new CFP numbers but overall percentage is stuck
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT APR 20, 2023
Women gain momentum in new CFP numbers but overall percentage is stuck

Kate Healy, managing director of the CFP Board's Center for Financial Planning, focuses on the increase in the number of new female CFPs.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Connecting with clients requires advisors to show their own vulnerability
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT APR 19, 2023
Connecting with clients requires advisors to show their own vulnerability

'If you crack yourself open, they'll crack themselves open alongside you. It makes the focus of your relationship about the truth,' Lupe Camargo said at the InvestmentNews Women Advisor Summit.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Pledges alone don’t catalyze diversity
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT APR 18, 2023
Pledges alone don’t catalyze diversity

It’s accountability and measurement that drive lasting change.

By Joanne Cleaver
What’s so funny about diversity, equity & inclusion?
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT APR 17, 2023
What’s so funny about diversity, equity & inclusion?

InvestmentNews will continue to promote what we perceive to be in the best interests of the advisory industry now and for generations to come: a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and exuberant makeup.

By Paul Curcio