Financial Planning - October 2020

High touch, high tech

This year’s list of the 150 largest firms represents an industry that will emerge from a post-COVID world deeply altered.

These firms oversee more than $185 billion in combined assets.

The group of fee-only practices and networks have 1,187 IARs who manage a combined $95.7 billion.

Which changes will become permanent? Our latest RIA Leaders ranking points the way.

Three out of the top four RIA custodians compete directly with their RIA clients through their networks of branch offices and call centers.

No vaccine will return advisors and clients to pre-COVID-19 times— it’s time to let go and keep building.

Financial advisor Lazetta Rainey Braxton describes tangible methods for opening minds and advisory practices.

Regulators will conduct surveys and sweep exams to assess how your firm’s BCP handled — or didn’t — the COVID-19 pandemic

Lower transaction costs can often come with higher expense ratios at the nation’s largest IBD.

To protect client nest eggs, advisors must know which savings vehicles are protected — and they’re not all created equal.

Effective tax management can add 1% percent to a portfolio annually, and potentially more in highly volatile years

The “one day at a time” mantra was particularly helpful in leading my team and clients through the COVID-19 pandemic.

The custodian’s NetX360 desktop now supports biometric authentication.