When a job change is on the horizon, don’t forget to roll over 401(k) assets. That message apparently has gotten through to most workers. According to a recent Investment Company Institute study, 59 percent of households with a traditional individual retirement account had IRAs that included rollover assets in 2016, and 82 percent [...]
Retirement advisers, brokers and dealers are speeding to change the way they deliver planning advice ahead of the June 9 deadline of the federal fiduciary rule, against which the industry has fought a year-long battler. Read Full Article
While industry manufacturers prepare for the long-awaited June 9 phase-in of DOL’s Conflict Interest Rule, key distribution players on which the brunt of the rule’s requirements will fall — independent marketing organizations — are themselves scrambling to become DOL ready. Read Full Article
Now open to financial advisors—regardless of corporate affiliation! Read Full Article
Finance industry vet Doug King once planned to recruit Jason Smith and his partners, who run two financial institutions and a training service for financial advisers in Westlake, to Cetera Advisor Networks in California, one of the country’s largest independent broker-dealers. Read Full Article
Prosperity Capital Advisors, a Westlake-based registered investment advisor, has named Douglas King as its president and CEO. Read Full Article
King will also take the helm at sister company, C2P Advisory Group
Cleveland, Ohio – April 17, 2017 – Prosperity Capital Advisors (PCA) has named industry veteran Douglas S. King, CFP®, formerly of Cetera Advisor Networks LLC, as its president and CEO. King will lead the SEC Registered Investment Adviser firm whose mission is [...]
New Entity Offers Access to Comprehensive Training, Coaching and Turnkey Processes to Industry
Cleveland, Ohio – March 16, 2017 Â –Â Clarity 2 Prosperity announces the launch of its fee-only training organization. This new entity offers financial advisors access to comprehensive training, coaching and mentoring as well as turnkey financial planning, innovative operations and marketing processes. These [...]
In respect to the last, the DOL proposal estimates that an IMO with average sales of $2 billion could satisfy this liability requirement by setting aside $20 million. If valued at 7 percent (3 percent net), the IMO’s “attendant opportunity cost” would total $1.4 million ($600,000 net) in the first year. Continue Reading
Regulatory thresholds proposed for independent marketing organizations (IMOs) to participate in the sale of fixed indexed annuities are so high as to be virtually worthless and unworkable for the bulk of the IMO industry, industry experts said. Read Full Article