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The 2024 Kenneth Black Jr. Leadership Award Winner Is Mike McGlothlin

NAIFA Advisor Today

McGlothlin served on the Society of FSP National Executive Committee from 2018 to 2021 and was National President in 2020-2021. He has demonstrated his personal commitment as a lifelong learner and educator and ethical professional. The team has achieved a remarkable 300% growth over six years. FSP established the Kenneth Black Jr.

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

In 2018, the PE firm shelled out over $5 billion in 2018 to take Envision private, in a deal valued at $9.9 New York Times ) • Justice Thomas Ethics Review Questioned by US Court Leader in 2012 : Thomas faced complaints in 2011 over reporting wife’s income Judiciary leadership member objected to lack of information.

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The Ethical Balancing Act of Outside Business Activities

Advisor Perspectives

Outside Business Activities (OBAs) are more than just side hustles for financial advisors – they’re ethical minefields that have drawn increasing scrutiny from regulatory bodies like FINRA.

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Family Bubble : At Stanford Law School, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried specialized in ethics and social fairness. He disclosed none of these activities on his annual disclosure forms, an obvious violation of federal ethics law.

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A Question of Ethics: Into the First Quarter

NAIFA Advisor Today

However, we may also feel some concern as NAAIA’s follow-up to their 2018 study noted some areas where DEI initiatives fall short. In addition, an increasing percentage of respondents in the study reported racial and gender bias as top barriers to entry into the industry of insurance and financial advisors than the study completed in 2018.

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When Should the New Yew York Department of Financial Services have Rehabilitated American Transit Insurance?

Aleph

” Update: NYC’s Largest Cab Insurer Ordered to Explore Sale After Losses Now for my graphs and efforts: I downloaded the Statutory Statements for 2023, 2018, and 2013. But from 2014-2018, they dropped that rate to 60.7%. Looking at the graph immediately above, losses from prior year business doubled 2014-2018.

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Bridgewater’s Dalio Gets Billions To Retire

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And while Dalio has often promoted workplace ethics and “radical transparency” by making internal meetings available to the entire firm and encouraging employees to rank each other, the agreement under which he stepped down has been kept secret, with employees telling The New York Times that they could be sued by Bridgewater if they spoke publicly.