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Jeffrey Slothower, a former registered investment advisor and founder of Battery Private, has been charged with wire fraud, investment advisor fraud and money laundering.

The wirehouse aims to retain more advisors with changes it says will reduce complexity and boost incentives for growth.

Dasarte Yarnway and Emlen Miles-Mattingy plan to launch the Onyx Advisor Network to support women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities.

The pandemic-related tax provision permits more people to deduct donations to qualifying charities on their 2021 federal income tax return.

Dan Gertrudes is CEO and co-founder of GrowthLab, a Finance-as-a-Service (FaaS) company that serves founders and management teams with financial planning, accounting, and CFO support. GrowthLab specializes in helping startups, emerging growth companies, and companies in turnaround mode by providing leadership and execution with their financial management, accounting, and strategic planning functions.

Thomas A. Cox is a founder of and the Volunteer Program Coordinator for the Maine Attorney Saving Homes program

Spousal lifetime access trusts are surging in popularity, but they aren’t as simple as some advisors or clients may think.

The second year of the pandemic unleashed unprecedented exogenous challenges for financial companies heading into 2022. What core trends will shape the industry moving forward?

Heather Turner supports SMA's advisory and consulting engagements through rich written content, quantitative and qualitative primary research, market and technology trend analysis, and the management of SMA IP materials. Prior to SMA, Heather was managing editor of the NU Property & Casualty Group at ALM, which includes the insurance industry publications PropertyCasualty360.com and NU P&C and Claims magazines. She started her career as a journalist reporting on the property & casualty insurance industry at Insurance Business America and its sister publications in Canada and the U.K.

Heather is a graduate of Florida State University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in Editing, Writing, and Media.