Yes, I know what you’re thinking: only six? But let’s start with these, and you can add to the list.

Which one is the best choice? Cash value life insurance is… A. an expense. B. a combination of protection and savings. C. a way of prepaying future insurance costs.  

  With tax season in full swing and stocks showing huge returns in recent years, advisors are dealing more with tax issues related to stock options, restricted stock and other compensation...

At at an A4A webinar last Friday, I covered the major issues compliance RIAs need to know about to be prepared for a regulatory exam in 2014. The session covered a wide range of issues, including...

Account aggregation app, ByAllAccounts, is the most popular account aggregation application among RIAs advising individual investors.   So it was surprising when the app became a central focus...

FINRA announced yesterday that it imposed a $1 million fine on a a Nebraska clearing firm for repeatedly violating anti-money laundering (AML), financial reporting and supervisory...

Sheryl Rowling’s appeal to NAPFA to restore accepting CPA/PFSs as members even if they do not hold a CFP designation reflects a deeper problem in the movement to make financial advising a...

  It's been over a year since the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) decided to accept as new members only those holding the Certified Financial PlannerTM (CFP®)...

Say your client’s child has great grades, tons of “Advanced Placement” credits, high SATs and SAT IIs, went to all the right summer camps, and has legacy 10-ancestors deep at an Ivy...

How does a speaker on investments go before an audience of independent practitioners month after month and consistently earn a 4.8 star-rating from attendees?   There’s only one...

Are you altering your approach to investors based on the type of behavioral investor they are? Prof. Victor Ricciardi, who will be speaking about behaviorial finance at this Friday's A4A webinar,...

  Fritz Meyer gave a brilliant update on the economy Tuesday, and he received a 4.7 rating from the 71 advisors who took the time after the Webinar to score his presentation on A4A’s...

Stephen Horan, managing director and co-lead of education programming at CFA Institute, rocked the world of professional financial advisors at a webinar session just minutes ago. He nailed it. I...

  Okay, the headline was a cheap trick, a crude grab for attention playing on our lust for titillation. But the underlying message is serious and important.   Writing today –...

Every firm has something they want to improve.  Usually, the improvements involve a process or procedure within your firm.  A process is the high level view of what work is done in your...

 Doing your best for clients can get you into trouble. As a responsible investment advisor, you try to pay attention to all of the details:

Financial advisors are not selling deals on electronics. They’re not Internet marketing hustlers. They’re not magazine publishers. On social media, financial advisors want to come off...

The disposition of digital assets is a new frontier for fiduciaries and an emerging area of law that prudent investment advisors will want to track closely.   Financial advisors who...

Millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other personal information is at risk as a result of a major breakdown in Internet security.

Criminals behind a vicious virus, Cryptolocker, are betting between $300 and $2500.  With just one innocent click any one employee can cause the data for an entire company to be...

The recent massive customer data breaches that have occurred at well-known retailers is causing the government and businesses to take a deeper look into cybersecurity.

  It was 1998 and I was standing in my old office, talking on the phone with Tom Connelly, a CFP with a Master’s Degree in Financial Planning, a CFA charterholder, and founder of an $800...

Some months ago, Advisors4Advisors stopped sending the Daily Digest, a daily summary of top stories we thought advisors needed to read. My decision to stop sending an email daily to registered...

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In a post on September 21, we pointed you to an AdvisorOne article that outlined 11 Congressional committees whose actions would likely be affected by the election.   Today, we'll begin to...