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  • Practice and client management
    Why financial advisors overwhelmingly prefer to be independent

    With teams managing some $9 trillion in client assets expecting to retire over the next 10 years, the results of Cerulli's survey carry massive implications.

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    By Tobias Salinger
    Chief Correspondent
    December 21
    Greener pastures
  • Wealth management
    How Gen Z should prepare their finances for 2023

    Advisors provide tips on five things young people should do to get their finances in order for 2023.

    December 21
  • Regulation and compliance
    Chopra warns Wells Fargo is not out of the woods after huge settlement

    Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said the bank is "not making rapid progress" and hinted at the possibility of additional restrictions. But analysts saw positives for Wells in the $3.7 billion consent order.

    By Polo Rocha
    Staff Writer
    December 20
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  • Practice and client management
    The premium RIAs will have to pay to attract financial advisor talent

    The Schwab Benchmarking Study has some concrete advice for advisory firms that need to hire tens of thousands of employees over the next five years.

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    By Tobias Salinger
    Chief Correspondent
    December 20
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  • Retirement
    Ask an advisor: Annuities, what are they good for?

    Few topics in retirement are as polarizing as the "A" word. We asked advisors to weigh in.

    By Nathan Place
    National Reporter
    December 20
  • Tax
    Why you shouldn't save for retirement, according to research

    An academic paper challenges the entrenched message that America faces a retirement crisis.

    By Lynnley Browning
    Managing Editor
    December 20
    The paper's thesis is grounded in an economic concept known as the life-cycle model.
  • Wealth management
    M&T agrees to sell one of its trust businesses to Chicago private equity firm

    The business being sold to Madison Dearborn Partners provides trustee and administrative services to asset managers and retirement plans.

    By Orla McCaffrey
    Staff Writer
    December 19
    Wilmington Trust
  • Audit
    Crypto audits 'essentially meaningless,' top investor says

    Michael Burry, the investor who foresaw the housing market crash in 2008, is skeptical about today's proof-of-reserve audits.

    By Bloomberg News
    December 19
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  • Retirement
    Establishing solo 401(k) plans for self-employed workers

    Advisors can help clients create significant amounts of tax-advantaged retirement wealth and deliver a tangible value-add in the process.

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    By Ben Henry-Moreland
    Senior Financial Planning Nerd
    December 18
  • Industry News
    6 ways that independent wealth managers are consolidating the industry

    Advisor Group, Ameriprise, Cetera, Commonwealth, LPL and Raymond James are getting bigger and streamlining a crowded field of business as they go.

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    By Tobias Salinger
    Chief Correspondent
    December 15
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  • Wealth Think The case for life insurance as a high-inflation hedge

    Appraisal and eventual sale on the secondary market of a policy no longer needed can make sense for older clients, says an industry expert.

    December 14
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  • Practice and client management
    Yale happiness scientist: How wealth advisors can lead with emotions

    Here's why unplugging from your devices during the upcoming holidays can help your career, and four other insights from Emma Seppälä, a happiness researcher at Yale.

    By Victoria Zhuang
    Reporter
    December 13
  • Consumer banking
    Wells Fargo's Scharf puts new emphasis on growth

    After several years when the scandal-plagued bank was focused on cost cutting, CEO Charlie Scharf indicated Tuesday that the company has opportunities to expand revenue across every line of business.

    By Kevin Wack
    Banking Editor
    December 6
    Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf
  • Wealth management
    Pro bono planning is hard for advisors. A new partnership can help

    CFP Board teams up with Foundation for Financial Planning to further their goal of increasing the number of planners who offer advice for free.

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    By Dan Shaw
    Reporter
    November 30
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  • Technology
    The case for crypto education amid significant disruption and volatility

    The FTX collapse and other fallout may have advisors on edge, but that makes education more important than ever. FP's Cryptocurrency for Advisors conference can help.

    By Brian Wallheimer
    Editor-in-chief
    November 29
  • Wealth Think Charity drive: 3 legacy vehicles for altruistic clients

    Selecting the right model can put them on track to achieve their philanthropic goals and objectives.

    November 29
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    Melanie Schnoll Begun
    Morgan Stanley
  • Tax
    A powerful new tool transforms how billionaires give fortunes away

    The most important quality of the so-called 501(c)(4) organization boils down to one word: control.

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    By Ben Steverman
    Personal finance reporter
    November 29
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  • AT Think Financial plans: Review, revise, repeat

    Regularly revisiting a client's planning documents offers a new perspective for an array of planning issues.

    November 29
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    John P. Napolitano
    Napier Financial
  • Retirement
    What's fueling the Great Annuity Boom?

    As inflation soars and stocks tumble, annuities are enjoying their best sales ever. Why?

    By Nathan Place
    National Reporter
    November 28
  • Blockchain
    Bankers design a new blockchain that works like bitcoin — but it's regulated

    A blueprint for a shared ledger for digital money would include central bank digital currencies, bank deposits and e-money from companies like PayPal — but not unsupervised cryptocurrencies.

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    By Penny Crosman
    Executive Editor, Technology at Arizent
    November 28
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CAN RIA GROWTH AND TRUE FIDUCIARY DUTY REALLY COEXIST?

Business goals cannot always put clients' best interests first. Here's why even the executives leading fast-expanding advisory firms say the critics have a point.

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