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#FASuccess Ep 441: What It Really Takes To Implement And Scale Compliance As An Independent RIA Grows, With Leila Shaver

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Leila is the founder of My RIA Lawyer, a compliance and legal services firm based in Alpharetta, Georgia, that serves RIAs, broker-dealers, and other financial services companies. My guest on today's podcast is Leila Shaver.

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A Recordkeeping Checklist For Financial Planning Services: Proactive Documentation Of Service Delivery To Reduce Regulatory Scrutiny

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Maintaining adequate books and records is a cornerstone of compliance for all investment advisers. For financial planning services, a similar approach to documentation can be applied to support regulatory compliance from the start of client engagement through all the steps that follow.

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Compliance Calendar For A Solo RIA: Staying On Top Of Compliance Tasks While Serving Clients

Nerd's Eye View

One of the most intimidating aspects of launching a solo advisory firm is the question of how to manage compliance. Creating a compliance calendar for a solo RIA can help to systematize and manage compliance tasks, requirements and deadlines.

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Crafting An Annual Compliance Calendar For A (Solo) RIA: Staying On Top Of Compliance Tasks While Serving Clients

Nerd's Eye View

One of the most intimidating aspects of launching a solo advisory firm is the question of how to manage compliance. Putting all of this information together, it’s possible to create a compliance calendar that accounts for each task required, its frequency, and the due date for each.

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#FASuccess Ep 409: Adding 1,400 New Clients In A Year As An Extension Of Doing (Profitable) Student Loan Consulting At Scale, With Travis Hornsby

Nerd's Eye View

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Travis originally developed his specialization of student loan planning through first correcting the misinformation given to his (now-)wife and her friends in the medical field (and realized that he could give high value to a chronically underserved population), how Travis first started his student loan consulting (..)

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (January 4–5)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with a recent survey indicating that a majority of advisors are viewing new client acquisition as their primary challenge in the current competitive environment for financial advice (followed by compliance and technology management) and suggests (..)

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Adviser links: building an enduring franchise

Abnormal Returns

Podcasts Blair duQuesnay talks with George Kinder about his new book "The Three Domains of Freedom." standarddeviationspod.com) Frazer Rice talks with Megan Gorman quthor of "All the Presidents' Money: How the Men who Governed America Governed Their Money." (citywire.com) Advisortech AI is coming for the compliance stack.