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Tapping a relationship that was around 15 years strong, Sanctuary won a legacy Merrill Lynch team in the competitive market for independent advisors. Here's how it happened, Sanctuary president Vince Fertitta told FP.

As headlines spotlight the disruptive power of artificial intelligence, a pair of experts say that advisors need to double down on being more human than ever.

A new report found more than 542 shareholder resolutions filed on ESG issues as of mid-February in this year's proxy season. But anti-ESG proposals also jumped.

The top Massachusetts securities regulator contends a broker's misdeeds could have been prevented if internal compliance officers had only tried.

Yiannis Gavrielides is the co-founder and CEO of Covve, helping professionals to grow and nurture their contact network. He actively supports entrepreneurship as a partner at Invelopment Partners.

Megan Smith's diverse career journey at SAP spans almost two decades, across multiple lines
of business: from instructional design and training to product management and, for the majority of time, in HR. She has been an HR Business Partner supporting global leaders across sales, engineering, marketing, and product support. In 2018, Megan spent six months conducting two major academic studies for SAP in partnership with Temple University: determining factors that drive innovation culture and discovering how creativity, stress, and engagement are impacted by working in the office vs at home. 

Over the past five years, Megan has been deeply involved as an HR leader in SAP's acquired cloud businesses in North America, the Head of HR for SAP Canada, and in 2022 expanded her
responsibilities to assume the role of Head of HR for SAP North America. Some of Megan's focus as of late has been developing SAP's Flex Work guidelines, D&I tools to develop inclusive
leadership, managing retention in a competitive market, and leading the COVID-19 Vaccination
office entry policy.

Most firms rank technology as their most important strategic initiative — but they struggle with how to prioritize and implement change.

Mike Tropeano, Senior Director, Broadridge Consulting Services, provides extensive insights into emerging technologies and trends such as digitizing operations, hyperpersonalization of customer communications, ESG and enablement of artificial intelligence and machine learning. He has a background in investment performance measurement, securities processing and operational best practices.  

Uday Singh, Managing Director, Head of Broadridge Consulting Services.

The bank plans to lay off roughly 5% of staff in the second quarter, excluding financial advisors and support staff in the wealth management division.