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Regular meetings can yield honest client feedback and advice on nearly everything about your firm. But it’s not as easy as just asking a few people to join you for coffee.

The change builds on earlier policy shifts at Ameriprise, which previously pulled more than 1,500 funds from its platform.

Roughly 300 ex-NPH advisors have chosen smaller IBDs over LPL Financial after its massive acquisition.

When choosing their next employer, advisors resist a digital downgrade.

DeFrain is vice president, sales and account management, at Purchasing Power, a voluntary benefit provider of an employee purchase program. She has more than 18 years of experience in employee benefits including consulting services, ancillary products and voluntary benefits.

Herman Yau is CEO of Tend.

Digital advice is vulnerable to bait-and-switch and choice manipulation schemes.

Scott Hess is vice president of user experience, consulting and innovation at Fiserv.

The aim of the so-called systematic internalizer is to lift some of the regulation’s most onerous reporting requirements from its trading partners.

Advisors worried about securing client data should learn how banks are developing a protected space for internet activity.