Trade Associations
Recent NAPFA Conference Unveils Slightly Different Direction For Planning Group
The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors has suffered from a touch of an identity crisis in recent years, but is now coming back with a focus on financial planning over advisory business models.
Resistance To The Fiduciary Rule Comes From Advisors Pleading Poverty
Advisors who already take pride in their fiduciary status are eager for regulators to make it mandatory industrywide. But who are the people who consider fiduciary practice a burden?
FPA Says Membership Decline Is Over, But How Can We Tell?
After a contentious decade, the Financial Planning Association says the worst is behind it. But while the rhetoric is welcome, it's hard to gauge concrete progress.
How Dodd-Frank Passed In The First Place (And Where It's Gone From There)
Nearly a year after the Dodd-Frank reform was signed into law, memory of the crimes that prompted it has faded, a CFP Board official says.
FINRA Spent More Money Lobbying Congress Last Quarter, But Guess Who Spent Five Times As Much
FINRA is spending a lot more this year to explain its agenda to Congress, but that's nothing compared to what a few of the industry organizations regularly pay out to lobbyists.
