Practice

Industry

Show clients how insurance policies work

Do clients understand their insurance coverage?

By Staff |June 19, 2013

3 min read

Industry

Compliance costs cut into client services

The pace of regulatory change is challenging wealth management firms.

By Staff |June 19, 2013

2 min read

Planning and Advice

Understanding clients and helping clients understand

The role of a financial advisor is simple. Our primary responsibility is to help clients identify where they are now and where they need to go. Along the way we also help clients separate their emotions and make decisions using a sound intellectual framework. So why does our community continue to worry about client reactions to short-term underperformance?

By Shawn O'Brien |June 19, 2013

3 min read

Planning and Advice

11 ways to use LinkedIn effectively

You’ve learned how to optimize your profile, so here are some tips on how to use LinkedIn more effectively.

By Melonie Dodaro |June 18, 2013

4 min read

Regulators aren’t protecting client data

Your clients’ data isn’t safe. Case in point: This year, IIROC accidentally lost a portable device that housed the data of 52,000 clients from 32 member firms. IIROC went public with the loss April 11, 2013, but in a May letter to dealer members, admitted it had known about the loss since at least March […]

June 18, 2013

8 min read

Apple agrees to release customer data

U.S. law enforcement agencies have asked Apple to release customer data to help aid in criminal and national security matters. And Apple has agreed, reports ft.com. But Apple reassures its customers it does not “provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer content must get a court […]

June 17, 2013

1 min read

When friends become clients

When a client becomes a friend, the rules governing the business relationship are in place. When friends become clients you need to position the rules of engagement with minimal disruption the friendship.

3 min read

Practice

Show clients how insurance policies work

Compliance costs cut into client services

Understanding clients and helping clients understand

11 ways to use LinkedIn effectively

Six quotes to make you a better investor

Regulators aren’t protecting client data

Netflix inks big deal with DreamWorks

Apple agrees to release customer data

Rich are now younger, more ethnically diverse

When friends become clients