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Summer Reading List Of “Best Books” For Financial Advisors – 2025 Edition

Nerd's Eye View

In the meantime, the buzz around AI continues to increase as well, less now about whether the tools will replace financial advisors (they don't), and more about how advisory firms can better leverage the technology to be more efficient in serving clients.

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Pennsylvania Advisor Who Used Client Funds on Country Club Dues Gets 8 Years in Prison

Wealth Management

Mason, who ran Rubicon Wealth Management, a registered investment advisor in Gladwyne, Pa., Between 2014 and 2024, Mason transferred client funds into his own accounts and those of the two entities without clients’ authorization, according to the SEC. He pleaded guilty to all of the criminal charges.

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Deals & Moves: Creative Plannings Snag Hawaii RIA; $5.1B True North Expands in SF

Wealth Management

Alex Ortolani , Senior Reporter , WealthManagement.com July 15, 2025 3 Min Read Cory Nakamura, chief investment strategist at Mosaic Pacific Creative Planning Adds $430M Hawaii-based RIA Creative Planning, the mega-registered investment advisor based in Overland Park, Kan. ,

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Ideal quarterly investment letters: Meaningful, specific, and short

Investment Writing

Most financial advisors (and investors) don’t have much time to read and are in a state of information overload. However, I suspect that members of two of my LinkedIn Groups–CFA Institute Members and Financial Writing/Marketing Communications–were particularly generous with their contributions.

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Getting Found – Your Google My Business Listing and the New SEC Marketing Rule

Midstream Marketing

This left a few questions concerning the new "review culture" that is taking place on the Internet, so the SEC further clarified things in 2014. We even have a new program aimed specifically at financial advisors to fast track your Google review in a cost effective and compliant way.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

And suddenly every broker, every financial advisor where they were operating through Merrill Lynch or Schwab could sell those funds and indexing was available to, all prior to that, there were a lot of brokers who would never have sold an index fund because they didn’t have access to Vanguard’s platform.

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Bracketology (2025 Edition)

The Better Letter

In 2014, one bracket was alive through 34 games. UConn won the national championship as a seven in 2014. ” Despite that reality, according to a study undertaken by the CFP Board , 88 percent of consumers and 30 percent of financial advisors think it’s easy to manage money.

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