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Registered Rep. August 1, 2006 Kevin McKinley |
New School Strategies First, the Department of Education altered the financial-aid treatment of certain 529 plans. Then the IRS tweaked custodial accounts. Here's what financial advisors can do to redirect families saving for college.  |
Registered Rep. August 1, 2006 William J. Bongiorno |
Summer Sales As an investment advisor you are missing a chance to promote your business and show your knowledge to the investing public if you decide to take a break this season. Forget about the sunscreen, it's time to get some ink (and air).  |
Registered Rep. August 1, 2006 Gary Weiss |
Institutionalized Unfairness Here the author of Wall Street Versus America discusses how the mandatory arbitration of customer disputes must be made to go away. And not just because it hurts financial advisory customers. It hurts the financial advisor equally.  |
Bank Technology News August 2006 |
Sizing Up Security: Are U.S. Banks Trailing U.K. Banks? If best practices are indeed what the U.S. banking industry seeks with regard to online security, they'll likely find some of the answers across the pond.  |
Bank Technology News August 2006 Michael Dumiak |
Image Capture: Scanning a Trend: Banks See Buy in Banks expect that companies, particularly those with disperse footprints, will demand remote-deposit image capture services.  |
Bank Technology News August 2006 John Adams |
Customer Experience: Frequent Questions Need New Answers TD Banknorth is among the banks working to improve answers to common customer queries. The first step is updating the questions themselves.  |
Bank Technology News August 2006 Glen Fest |
Multi-Factor Authentication: Two-Factor Timing Twists Up Bankers The FFIEC's guidelines for adopting multi-factor authentication includes a hard deadline with apparently soft parameters. But will haste end up producing waste?  |
Bank Technology News August 2006 John Adams |
Streamlining Operations: UBB's IT Traffic Cop Is Automated 'Team' United Bankers Bank is using new task-management software to prioritize IT projects and operations. It's a far cry from the days of keeping track of work orders in binders.  |
Registered Rep. August 1, 2006 |
The Broker-Dealer Exemption: Good or Bad for the Investing Public? (Oy, This Still Hasn't Been Resolved?) True financial advisors -- those who hold Series 65s and Series 66s, and who are fiduciaries -- aren't too happy that Series 7-holders have been able to cast themselves as financial advisors.  |
Financial Advisor August 2006 |
Frontline News SEC To Research Broker Rule... The Affluent Reportedly Less Confident... Schwab Assets Boosted As Webcasts Reach Broker Converts... Space Station Vet To Speak... etc.  |
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