compliance focus

The Financial Advice Profession: Are we there yet?

October 12, 2020

The incessant debate about whether financial advice can be called a profession or whether it is an “industry” keeps rolling along and mostly the debate is within the industry. Those who are not financial advisers…

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Compliant Advice: Paper Beats Scissors Every Time

March 16, 2020

When it comes to compliant advice Advisers really need to grasp that they are playing a game of “Rock, Paper, Scissors” with every client engagement now. There almost certainly will be an instance where a…

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Regulation of financial advisors

Time to get with the program on regulation

July 27, 2018

For all the distractions, downtime and inefficiency that comes with new (or more) financial services regulation it is very easy to see it as an imposition. Many advisers conclude that regulation is simply bureaucracy which…

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