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Praveen Ghanta
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"... Fast forward to today, and the company, which is headquartered in Decatur, Ga., has 25 employees, more than $503 billion running through its platform and is branching out with new uses for its technology that should drive the firm deeper into the advisory space. ..." READ THE FULL PROFILE
Kirstin Hill
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John Langston
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As the pace and scale of mergers continue along an upward slope among registered investment advisory firms, a new type of player is emerging: the dealmaker. ... READ THE FULL PROFILE
Meghan McCartan
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"... a marketing strategy should go beyond the so-called “lifestyle practice” to focus on building a pipeline of prospects engaged with the firm on multiple levels. ..." READ THE FULL PROFILE
Dr. Carolyn McClanahan
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"... Health care decisions have an outsize impact on a client’s financial life, and mitigating those risks should be part of any conversation with clients around their financial plans. ..." READ THE FULL PROFILE
Brett Redfearn
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" ... 'To enhance the quality of brokerage advice and preserve the brokerage advice model for investors, the Commission needed to act in a way that recognized the range of services and the various types of advice—one-time, episodic, to more frequent—that a broker/dealer may provide its retail customers. It is important to give firms flexibility and a reasonable compliance path to develop systems to incorporate these new obligations.' ... " READ THE FULL PROFILE
Doug Scott
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"... Scott thinks Ethic’s approach will only grow in prominence, as the technology brings direct indexing to advisors and clients. Why invest through an asset management company when an advisor can tweak an index based on individual client needs without sacrificing returns or taking on undue risk? ..." READ THE FULL PROFILE
Teri Shepherd
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"... Shepherd stressed the importance of digitizing the clients’ experience, noting that the Amazon-esque “click-thru” treatment they encounter in other contexts was not the same in the RIA space, to advisors’ detriment. ..." READ THE FULL PROFILE
Perth Tolle
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" ...Tolle’s ambition was to build an index that favored countries with higher personal, economic and democratic freedoms. Thus the Life + Liberty Indexes and the Life + Liberty Freedom 100 Emerging Markets Index were born. ..." READ THE FULL PROFILE
Enrique Vasquez
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"... With Blucora’s backing, Avantax will have more resources to build out what Vasquez calls “tax-smart solutions,” tools that help its advisors give clients more tax-efficient advice. ..." READ THE FULL PROFILE
