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Tim Urbanowicz, CFA, is the head of research and investment strategy for Innovator Capital Management.

Prior to joining Innovator, he was a senior investment strategist for Northern Trust, serving as a subject matter expert on global markets and portfolio construction. Prior to joining Northern Trust, he served as the director of fixed income ETFs and head capital markets strategist for Invesco.

J.D. Crouch is the CEO and president of the United Service Organizations, a private nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening America's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country throughout their service to the nation.

Popular online brokerage has paid $175 million to resolve recent actions by federal and state regulators.

Maria Tsennykh, Ph.D., is a principal at CLA in New York. She has more than 17 years of experience in valuation, forensics, litigation, investigations and audit, including serving as an expert witness and 11 years at a Big Four firm. In addition, having worked on two continents, she combines her economic, accounting, corporate finance, valuation and investigation backgrounds to advise clients on a variety of complex circumstances in the U.S. and internationally. Her experience includes damages analysis, assessment of corporate governance practices and internal controls, business and intangible assets valuation, and international arbitration advisory. She also regularly directs large-scale financial investigative assignments including forensic accounting investigations, financial fraud investigations, financial reporting investigations, white-collar crime investigations, corporate governance investigations and investigations involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

During the recent banking crisis, both businesses and wealth management clients moved their money out of banks. Commercial deposits have since recovered, but those in wealth accounts continue to decline amid fierce competition from both inside and outside the banking system.

Two advisors from the RIA space shared why they took a risk and moved abroad — and what they learned from it.

Between conflicting data points and countless buzzy 'best practices,' it's easy for advisory firms to get caught up in the weeds on the elusive business booster.

The Wilmington, Delaware, bank announced this week that it had purchased Bell Rock Capital. WSFS' management says that legal troubles involving that investment advisory firm's founder won't affect the transaction.

Alejandro M. Agenjo is a Madrid-born engineer, psychologist, and entrepreneur whose passion is understanding people and improving communities and their systems. He was named one of the top social entrepreneurs in 2019 for his ed-tech startup seeking to detect students' strengths and learning styles to improve learning and future opportunities. Today, he's the proud co-founder and CEO of Erudit, an AI SaaS empowering executives with real-time workforce insights to drive better decisions and to build healthier work communities.

CG Advisory Network's move comes less than a month before the transition of clients from TD Ameritrade is scheduled to take place.