Practice management

An advisor pair that jumped to Merrill Lynch after just four months with Barclays must pay back over $6.6M in hiring bonuses, FINRA rules.

As hackers and scam artists become more sophisticated, screening for scams can be difficult. Advisors must understand the top threats to client data and what might happen in the event of a breach.

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A growing number of advisors are using coaching services to help realize their dreams of becoming authors.

Lawyers who regularly represent disgruntled clients who make allegations against financial advisors offer reassurance to the vast majority in the industry. Keep the big picture in mind and recognize that only a tiny fraction of financial advisors get sued, they say.

A UBS advisor managing $108 million in assets has left the wirehouse to join rival firm Merrill Lynch.

An advisor team with $400 million in client assets has left Wells Fargo to go independent with the help of Dynasty Financial Partners.

One Morgan Stanley CFP uses her bankruptcy to build bridges to her clients and hone her practice.

The list includes 20 CFPs with bankruptcies dating back to March 2009; none are subject to disciplinary action.

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Average starting salaries for accounting and finance professionals in the United States are forecast to rise 3.5% next year, according to the staffing company Robert Half.

Advisor Jo Ellen Fisher, who allegedly stole nearly $1 million from a 95-year-old client, is barred from the industry and has been sued by her former employer.

Advisors should keep abreast of what their employees post on social media, but also recognize that notions of appropriate online commentary vary among generations.

Security experts recommend advisors use not only passwords, but a more stringent form of verification, known as “two-factor authentication,” for logging into every device and into every data collection system they control.

A former Morgan Stanley advisor must pay the firm nearly $200,000 in owed bonuses, FINRA ruled.

The American Bankers Association, which initially opposed ".bank" domain names on the Web, is now promoting them as a way to enhance security amid growing cyber risk concerns.

The new program is designed to help advisors and sales assistants sharpen their sales and administrative skills.

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As advisors look to mergers and acquisitions to fuel growth strategies and succession plans, firms need to look beyond the transaction itself and think strategically about how a combined firm will operate, experts said this week at the FSI's financial advisor summit.

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