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Sonya Swink is a freelance reporter specializing in finance coverage.

Her background is in deadline-driven reporting spanning commercial real estate, asset management and general business coverage. Swink has been featured in Bisnow, the Financial Times and The Guardian.

A California man's complaint alleges that Morgan Stanley's website enabled tracking tech from Google and Microsoft to collect web visitors' browsing data for targeted online ads.

Schwab limits the proportion of assets that its advisory partners can hold in risky long-short SMAs to 30% of the total.

Margaret Williams is Director of Product Management for Insurance and Utilities at EarthDaily. She leads the development of data-driven solutions that support underwriting, risk assessment, and decision-making, with a focus on applying geospatial analytics to real-world insurance and infrastructure challenges.

In a Q1 earnings call, CEO Jim Cracchiolo emphasized the firm's recruiting approach that seeks a "built, not bought" advisor workforce.

The latest Cerulli Associates study tracking investors' willingness to pay for financial advice offered a mix of potential challenges with new business opportunities.

The Bahnsen Group, founded in 2015 by a former Morgan Stanley team, has grown into a private wealth powerhouse with roughly 100 employees and offices in three states.

Aaron Cheiffetz is an executive strategist with CDW, where he focuses on how structural shifts in markets and technology reshape banking and capital markets. He holds an MBA from Wake Forest University.