Financial Planning - July/August 2021

The tech investment Squeeze

According to Financial Planning’s 2021 Tech Survey, large firms are ramping up spending while smaller firms are keeping budgets modest. Are they starting to fall behind?

The nonprofit’s response to the scathing criticism of the Independent Task Force on Enforcement was to protect its own executives at the expense of benefiting investors, writes Allan Roth.

Even with a 15-year window to pay taxes, a near-doubling of the capital gains rate and the elimination of the step-up in basis loophole will make a sale expensive.

Most credit unions don’t offer planning services, and affiliating with the No. 1 IBD could help CUNA Brokerage change that, the firm’s president says.

This likely means an ex-diversity chief from the firm will no longer be able to testify in a class action lawsuit with similar allegations, according to a legal expert.

The lead founder of Edelman Financial Engines, the largest independent advisor in the country, has surprising lessons about selling his 'clients first' firm to private equity investors.

The agency is headed back to the drawing board with its proposed revision of how brokers get complaints removed from their record.

The wacky performers can teach us how to grow our businesses, writes Chip Munn.

For advisors, this structure can deepen relationships and help bring interaction with new populations and prospects, writes Marianne Caswell.

Make female executives and heiresses feel dumb about personal finance and they’ll take their portfolios elsewhere.

Launching was the easy part. Our success depended on surmounting three challenges, writes Allan Boomer.

There’s a common cultural myth that says people don’t talk about money. I disagree; I think we talk about money all the time. Just not enough about what I describe as “the missing pieces of the money conversation.”

"Looking at boards, leadership representation, diversity representation and other indicators can guide advisors to consider investing in companies that align with their clients’ objectives," writes Eve Ellis.