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Most independent advisory firms are great at winning new clients, managing investments and helping navigate their financial lives. But recruiting, developing and hiring staff have been among the top challenges for registered investment advisors over the last several years. The talent search strategy has often consisted of asking around to family and friends, wholesalers, custodians…

Businesses can move money faster than ever. Their customers, however, may still need to navigate a maze of messages, portals, passwords and payments pages before that money starts moving. The disconnect is creating a largely invisible revenue leak for consumer lenders, utilities and other companies that depend on recurring customer payments. “Payments is not the…

Noble: Upside Is Worth The Rough Waters

Full disclosure and the power of stories The opportunity that Nault sees in helping clients, or the children of clients, getting married is in getting them to lay out their full relationship with money. The wedding can be a route to greater financial literacy and deeper understanding between the clients. It can also be a…

Evolving geopolitical conflicts push maritime insurers to rethink war-risk coverage rules. This article appears in the July/August issue of Global Finance Magazine. An insurance consortium to help ships transit the Strait of Hormuz may reflect a new definition of war for purposes of maritime claims, depending on new armed-conflict provisions under debate. Lloyd’s of London…