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Style guidelines for financial services firms

Investment Writing

Style guidelines for financial services firms can help you to make your written communications more consistent and thus easier to read. Why create style guidelines for your financial services firm? It can be distracting if writing styles are inconsistent within and across documents published by your firm.

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Personal finance links: taking actual risks

Abnormal Returns

(humbledollar.com) Advice How to fire your financial advisor in four steps. wsj.com) How poorly drafted legal documents can land you in trouble. thomaskopelman.com) The financial services industry spends A LOT on lobbying. genyplanning.com) How to compare college financial aid awards.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (May 6-7)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that the House Financial Services Committee unanimously passed a bill that would direct the SEC to conduct a study and carry out a rulemaking on the definition of a "small entity" to reduce the compliance burden on small businesses, (..)

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Announcing IAR Ethics CE Day And The State Of The (Nerd’s Eye View) Blog

Nerd's Eye View

In the early days when financial advisors were first and foremost salespeople for insurance and investments products, the reality is that "advisor training and education" wasn't really about finance or advice… it was mostly just about learning how the company's products worked and how to effectively sell them to consumers.

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (May 2024)

Nerd's Eye View

WhatsApp ), in a reminder to all advisory firms that all business-related communication must be archived (and reviewed!) WhatsApp ), in a reminder to all advisory firms that all business-related communication must be archived (and reviewed!)

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#FASuccess Ep 394: Launching An Administrative Family Office Practice To Deliver Your Best Support To (HNW) Clients, With Christi Van Rite

Nerd's Eye View

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Christi provides families with 4 primary pillars of administrative family office services – bookkeeping for their personal financial household, payroll for household employees, property management for their multiple homes, and information and document management – in order to both manage the day-to-day (..)

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What Do Financial Adviser Designations Mean? What are the Letters after a Name?

Carson Wealth

Financial service professionals like Tammy climb a competence stairway to work with clients. In this blog, we’ll break down industry jargon, share what various credentials indicate and explain why the financial services industry is so regulated. . Registration Standards for Financial Advisors.