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Mark Alcaide: Foreside’s experienced management team, comprehensive resources, and scale offers the unique opportunity to further expand NCS’s core solutions to new customer segments.

Lovell Minnick sinks more capital into TurboTaxifying the RIA compliance market, with roll-up of NCS; but Brian Hamburger and other free-standers see no threat

Like Aquiline with RIA-in-a-Box, the private equity firm says scale and software are key to comply with SEC dictates in the future, but MarketCounsel and Cipperman are betting this ain't like retail tax returns.

January 5, 2019 at 2:07 AM

Jon Stein [to CNBC]: The only thing I would do differently is I would put a notification in the app and say, 'By the way, we delayed trading right now,.

Betterment explains why its Brexit-sparked trading halt on Friday wasn't 'suspended' trading

The $4.8-billion robo-advisor frames its trading actions in terms of discretionary management of assets but the prerogative it asserts puts RIA clients in a tight spot

June 28, 2016 at 10:43 PM

What looks disorderly at TD has the dead reckoning of dollars following ROI opportunity.

An advertiser's-eye view of TD Ameritrade's national conference

Firms that rarely advertise had booths, including mega-RIAs, competing custodians and Marty Bicknell

February 3, 2014 at 4:40 AM

Les Abromovitz:  [Soft dollar use] may affect the best execution of securities transactions and might cause the client to pay more than the lowest-available commission.

RIAs need to take a hard look at their use of soft dollars

Some advisors are landing in hot water with the SEC

November 11, 2011 at 5:14 AM

Les Abromovitz: In a discussion of this issue, one attorney at NCS argued that the individual was giving the Facebook page a thumbs-up, not the advisory firm. It remains to be seen if regulators will make that distinction.

Why compliance experts are apt to dislike Facebook

When does a click constitute an endorsement?

May 13, 2011 at 1:08 PM

Les Abromovitz: The fact that another adviser is engaging in the same conduct does not make it compliant. For example, you won’t help your cause by showing examiners other RIA websites that are just as noncompliant as yours is.

What not to do during a state or SEC audit

The four tempting -- but ultimately counterproductive -- tacts advisors sometimes take

March 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM

Les Abromovitz: Glowing remarks by clients may count as testimonials.

Considering hosting a radio show? The SEC may tune in.

Radio programs and commercials pose compliance complications. Disclosure helps.

January 20, 2011 at 2:30 PM

Alan Foxman: Is arbitration the greatest thing since sliced bread, or is it the proverbial kangaroo court?

In the duel of FINRA vs. state courts, one comes out on top for most advisors

Rarely seen stats shed light on whether you are more likely to win in arbitration

January 13, 2011 at 2:19 PM

Les Abromovitz: Recently, one RIA firm that I work with claimed to have created hundreds of unique solutions. Those kinds of claims invite a securities examiner to ask for proof that the firm’s solutions are truly out of the ordinary.

The marketing naughty and nice list

Catchwords and strategies likely to draw regulators' ire -- and others that pass anyone's test

December 23, 2010 at 2:51 PM

Les Abromovitz: Aside from the issue of whether a designation or certification is misleading, all financial services firms should be concerned about investment advisers who claim to have credentials they did not earn.

Why you should pay attention to proliferating advisor credentials

Les Abromovitz heads to Nebraska to figure out which letters are worthwhile -- and which take little more than a check and a pulse to earn

November 2, 2010 at 6:03 AM

Les Abromovitz: The SEC’s observation was surprising.

So you're an RIA. Be careful about calling yourself one, says the SEC

Beware of using the term as focal point for marketing; some states may have competing regulations

October 11, 2010 at 4:41 AM

Charles Goldman: Off advisors' minds.

What do advisors care about? The new SEC that emerged in July, for one thing.

Plus, what a Smith Barney breakaway team is finding out about financial plans

August 12, 2010 at 3:50 AM

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