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Strict new reporting rules on global assets and earnings is prompting blowback from financial institutions.

Marketing is not a one-shot thing. It is about finding a need and filling it over and over again to generate predictable results. Choose one of these action items and grow your business today.

Almost seven in 10 mass-affluent couples (69%) discuss their finances at least a few times a month. That’s more than what many spend talking about other topics, such as the election, work, sex, and even their kids.

As a new advisor, you have the luxury and ability to offer all your clients top notch service. It is easy to make everyone an “A” client when you have a small book to manage. But as the the team at Focus reminds us, as time goes on and your business grows, you start to realize pretty quickly that it is virtually impossible to offer the same type and level of services to every client in your book.

3D Asset Management today officially unveiled Vincent Leon as vice president and National Sales Manager overseeing all sales, marketing, and distribution for its Intermediary and Retirement channels.

Legend Financial Advisors has found success through monthly webcasts, focusing either on a financial planning or investing topic, sometimes chosen based on demand from a client.

More than half of the nation’s affluent investors (52%) report that their net worth has grown at least 20% since 2007, and 73% believe they have “a lot of control over their financial future.”

Consumerism has, for the most part, taught us that satisfaction is the standard. But Ron Carson writes that, in the financial advisory business, satisfaction is unacceptable. Satisfied clients are not loyal clients and loyal clients are the only good clients.

More seniors are concerned about Medicare than about any other financial issue, topping even those who are worried about having enough money to enjoy retirement, according to a survey by Allsup.

Morgan Keegan & Co., the brokerage firm acquired by Raymond James Financial Inc., was ordered by a federal appeals court to pay a group of 18 investors a $9.2 million arbitration award.