If the financial services industry is serious about engaging more women as advisors, there’s a lot more work to be done. Not only are there serious misconceptions and barriers still in place, a new study by the CFP Board reports less than a...
A recent WealthManagement.com article (“Is the CFP Board Losing Credibility in the Eyes of Advisors?,” April 11) does not provide an objective or balanced report on the attitudes of CFP professionals or CFP Board. The article seems to...
Many advisors who grew up in this industry were taught to look at asset allocation in a pretty standard way: What’s the client’s risk tolerance? And based on that, how much exposure should they have to stocks? To bonds? Should we mix in some less...
• Tax Court ruling upholds trustees’ activities as qualifying trust for material participation exception under IRC Section 469—In Frank Aragona Trust v. Commissioner, 142 T.C. No. 9, the Tax Court ruled in favor of the taxpayer...
Some would argue independent broker/dealers have been slow to adopt social media. Compliance, perhaps, has been their biggest hurdle. But if these firms are any indication, the IBD world is catching up. And as consumers increasingly turn to social...
The independent broker/dealer model may be holding some advisors back from growing into an enterprise
