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Financial Planning June 1, 2011 Bob Veres	Things I Just Don't Understand Is there any profession, anywhere, that's raised its own standards voluntarily, identified and reduced its own conflicts of interest voluntarily and lobbied harder on behalf of consumer protections than the financial planning profession over the past 30 years?
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Financial Planning July 1, 2012 Bob Veres	Gaps of Logic FINRA has been an effective bludgeon against the small independent B-D world, creating paperwork requirements whose costs are best amortized over larger hordes of retail advisors.
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Bob Veres	To the World of 2020 I'm writing this column to help you address the issue on the minds of investors and consumers everywhere in your future day and age: How can we finally fix the regulatory system after the latest traumatic events shook the markets to their core?
Financial Planning September 1, 2012 Bob Veres	Why Doesn't the RIA Community Come Up With Better Proposals? Instead of fighting against bad proposals, shouldn't the RIA community be proposing better alternatives? We assume that the goal of the Dodd-Frank Act is to tighten up lax RIA regulation.
Financial Planning December 1, 2011 Bob Veres	Regulatory Armaggedon The Republican leadership in Congress has proposed that the SEC authorize one or more self-regulatory organizations to take over regulation of RIAs. This has been coordinated with massive Wall Street lobbying.
Financial Planning May 1, 2010 Bob Veres	In Their Own Words A fiduciary standard would be an important and powerful protection for the American consumer, and a giant step forward in the evolution of the financial advisory profession.
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Bob Veres	The Plan This is an interim report on the market share erosion experienced by our Wirehouse ("Member") firms versus "fiduciary" and "consumer-focused" financial planners.
Financial Advisor September 2009	Frontline News News for the financial services industry: Regulations, Fiduciaries And Other Things... Breakaway Broker Trend Slowing?... Barney Frank Won't Push SRO For Advisors... CFP Board's Proposed New Education Standard... M&A Activity Down, But Not Out... more...
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Larry Light	The Tradeoff Registered investment advisors may end up getting to know a new regulator, but the tougher fiduciary standard they live under will also be extended to cover their broker-dealer rivals.
Investment Advisor September 2005 Bob Clark	Clark at Large: Can't Tell a Book... For all its flaws, Mark Hurley's new treatise, Back to the Future: The Continuing Evolution of the Advisory Business, offers advisors some valuable insights.
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Bob Veres	Victory, for Now Brokerage firms have little choice but to adapt to a world in which their traditional service -- clearing trades and executing transactions -- has become "solely incidental" to the increasingly valuable business of providing advice.
Financial Advisor July 2011 Andrew Gluck	Redefining Financial Advice The fate of professionalization and the FPA hang in the regulatory balance.
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad	The United Way The FPA's unexpected victory could pave the way to new regulations that cover both brokers and investment advisors.
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Bob Veres	What's Next for Planners When we cast our gaze forward at the changes taking place in the financial planning profession, a lot of new variables creep into the formula: the rapid evolution of technology, demographic and societal changes, plus wild cards like the recent Great Recession and financial reform legislation.
Financial Planning April 1, 2008 Bob Veres	The Myths of Our Age These days, the planning profession seems to be caught in a web of myths and half-truths, which make it difficult for us to talk about a lot of issues. Here are some common myths regarding the financial planning industry.
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Katherine Reynolds Lewis	Study Harder New Dodd-Frank legislation kick-started two major initiatives that could transform the way financial advice is regulated and for the first time subject financial planning to explicit regulatory oversight.
Financial Planning October 1, 2013 Bob Veres	Wish List: 27 Changes That Would Help Advisors In which we make a few modest requests for the health of the profession as well as the financial services industry.
Financial Planning April 1, 2013 Bob Veres	Top 10 Advisor Worries Planners report that these worries and uncertainties dominate their thoughts about the profession.
Investment Advisor March 2006 Melanie Waddell	The Playing Field: Here, There and Everywhere Dually registered advisors (advisors who are registered with both the SEC and the NASD, and are collecting both fees and commissions) have the best -- and worst -- of both worlds. However, a new study shows when implemented properly, the hybrid model can be very profitable.
Investment Advisor January 2008 Kathleen M. McBride	Big Brokers and Planning FPA is embracing major firms, reaching out with ways to help captive broker/dealer, bank, and wirehouse executives and their reps to shift part of their firms to an advisory model.
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Callahan & Malo	Hybrid Chic A trend toward hybrids in the financial services industry is emerging. Increasingly, firms, advisors and brokers are establishing practices that manage both commission -- and fee-based businesses.
Financial Planning May 1, 2010 Bob Veres	A Profession Comes Of Age As the planning profession reaches maturity, motive and opportunity seem to be conspiring to create a better professional world.
Financial Advisor July 2009 Sherri Scordo	Compliance Concerns There's a lot of buzz these days about potential changes in compliance rules and the impact on advisors.
Financial Planning January 1, 2013 Bob Veres	Future Tense for Financial Advisors With fiduciary advisors taking market share from the brokerage firms, will FINRA exact payback? Here s a glimpse of what may come.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 John Churchill	Fix Advisor Laws! Laws should reflect the fact that the differences between registered reps and registered investment advisors have largely evaporated.
Financial Advisor March 2011 Andrew Gluck	Members Only Good intentions and strict rules may have backfired for the Financial Planning Association at a time of change.
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Donna Mitchell	Hybrid's New Groove Registered investment advisor firms looking for ways to expand their businesses might try turning to broker-dealers for a boost.
Financial Advisor March 2012 Eric Rasmussen	Swimming In Shallow Water Broker-dealers face a stagnant rep pool, shrinking margins and the choke hold of regulators. But it's been a boon to the biggest consolidators.
Financial Advisor January 2006 Raymond Fazzi	Declaration Of Independence More financial planners are leaving wirehouses to become fee-based RIAs.
Investment Advisor June 2006 Kathleen M. McBride	Stretched For broker/dealers who are already stressed, dually registered advisors are a challenge being met in varied ways.
Financial Advisor November 2008 Gail Liberman	War Breaks Out For Wirehouse Brokers The economic crisis on Wall Street, among many other things, is causing wirehouse brokers to reconsider the value proposition offered by the giant financial service firms.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2005 Pam Black	Why More Reps Are Getting Their Kicks on Route 66 What's driving top reps to Series 66 RIA designation is not regulatory rules. It's changes in the wirehouse environment that, newly minted RIAs say, made it harder for them to do their own thing.
Investment Advisor July 2009 Bob Clark	Clark at Large: Reality Check Washington is far more likely to tweak the existing system than to rewrite the investment advisor legislation.
Financial Advisor January 2005 Tracey Longo	How Fee-Based Programs Led 2004 Brokerage Profits Fee-based profitability is not lost on brokerage executives, who are ramping up programs designed to attract more planners to a fee-based business model and away from traditional commissions.
Financial Advisor May 2006 Andrew Gluck	New Rule Causes Software Schizophrenia New financial software programs for advisors reflect the difference between fiduciary and suitability requirements.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Mike Patton	B/D or RIA? The Case for the Registered Investment Advisor After considering the different options, one advisor explains why he opted for the registered independent advisor model.
Financial Advisor November 2009	Frontline News Advisor News: Poll on advisor pay... Citi Embracing Fee-Only Model... RIAs Set Record For Repurchasing Their Firms... FINRA Expands Arbitration Pilot Program... SEC Expects To Examine 9% Of RIAs Annually... more...
Financial Advisor December 2005 Harold Evensky	Unintended Consequences Brokers must forego the bells and whistles accompanying much of the current planning software if they wish to avoid having to register as investment advisors; however, that should not prevent them from appropriately using these analytics in arriving at suitable recommendations for their clients.
Financial Advisor November 2009 Jeff Schlegel	The Great Debate Financial services reform is coming. How will it impact advisors?
Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 David A. Geracioti	Outgrowing the Series 7? Registered investment advisors must take the Series 65 exam. As the line between brokers and financial advisors blurs, what responsibilities do brokers that dispense advice and collect a fee based on assets have?
Financial Advisor April 2004	Royal Alliance Ups Ante For OSJs Advisor Group Says Come One, Come All... Securities America Tests New Transition Options... Award Established To Honor Viragh... etc.
Financial Advisor March 2006 Nancy Lininger	Letters to the Editor The New Advisory-World Order: Commissioned reps have lost clients over the years to discount brokers, day traders and now, the divine fee-only advisor. Firms embracing fees and commissions, and offering the most services and compensation options, will be reborn.
On Wall Street September 1, 2011 Nick Georgis	Taking The Hybrid Road As more advisors transition to independence these days, a growing number of them are choosing to adopt a hybrid business model that lets them conduct both commission-based brokerage business and fee-based advisory business. For many advisors, the hybrid road may offer the best of both worlds.
Registered Rep. June 4, 2012 Lauren Barack	The Fishbowl Effect As financial advisor ratings websites like BrightScope and Advice IQ proliferate, advisors are going to have to get comfortable with having their records a click away from clients and prospects.
Financial Planning December 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell	Turning on the Charm Next month the SEC reports to Congress on its recommendations for enhancing examinations for investment advisors. FINRA, meanwhile, is trying to persuade movers and shakers on the Hill that it already has the answers.
Investment Advisor July 1, 2011 Bob Clark	If You Want Something Done Right It's beginning to look like the only way Dodd-Frank reregulation is going to turn out well is if RIAs form their own SRO.
On Wall Street July 1, 2009 Helen Kearney	The 'F' Word Stirs Up Controversy Advisors who fall under the new fiduciary standard, namely investment advisors who run a fee-based business, must always put clients' interests before of their own.