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There are still dozens of questions about how the tax break applies.

The five new advisors kicked off recruiting in 2019 for the No. 4 IBD after it set a record in the previous year.

John Samuel, who joined CGS as its global chief information officer in 2016, was promoted to executive vice president in 2018, leading the company’s digital transformation to support its future expansion plans. With more than 20 years of progressive technology operations experience, he leads the global CGS technology teams, responsible for shaping the corporate digital strategy and overseeing IT initiatives, cybersecurity and implementation of productivity and process improvement tools.

Robert Dumas is the founder and CEO of TaxConnex, which provides outsourced sales tax services. An accountant, consultant and entrepreneur, he began his public accounting career on the tax staff at Arthur Young & Co., followed by a brief stint at Grant Thornton. In 1998, he founded Tax Partners, which became the largest sales tax compliance service bureau in the country, and later sold it to Thomson Corporation. He founded TaxConnex in 2006 on the principle that the sales tax industry needed more than automation to truly help clients, thus building within TaxConnex a proprietary platform and network of sales tax experts to take sales tax off client’s plates.

Clients may want a new plan if there have been unfavorable changes to their old plans, they want more flexibility or because of a new illness.

By explaining the firm’s sources of revenue and expenses, a team can better understand how they impact profitablility.

Nearly all of the outflows came from mutual funds and ETFs that posted losses.

The firm has lost more than 1,100 advisors since a phony accounts scandal came to light in 2016.

For investors who were hoping for a turnaround quarter, better luck next time.

GJ King is president of RIA in a Box, a firm which provides compliance and operations support to more than 1,400 RIA firms.