Welcome back to the 259th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast! My guest on today’s podcast is Patricia Houlihan. Patti is the Founder of Houlihan Financial Resource Group, an independent RIA based in the Washington DC area that oversees $345M in assets under management for 150 client households. What’s unique about Patti, though, is […]
Archives for December 2021
#FA Success Ep 259: Facilitating An Internal Succession Plan As The Pathway To Put Clients First, With Patricia Houlihan
Welcome back to the 259th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast! My guest on today’s podcast is Patricia Houlihan. Patti is the Founder of Houlihan Financial Resource Group, an independent RIA based in the Washington DC area that oversees $345M in assets under management for 150 client households. What’s unique about Patti, though, is […]
Credit Suisse faulted for supervisory failures in rejected client complaint
24 in court after NatWest’s £265m money laundering fine
The FCA says 24 people have been charged so far in relation to a £400m money laundering ring centred on NatWest and a Bradford jeweller. NatWest was fined nearly £265m today at Southwark Crown Court following an FCA prosecution for money laundering – although no NatWest staff will face FCA prosecution unless new evidence comes […]
NatWest fined £264.8m for money laundering
National Westminster Bank has today been fined £264.8m at Southwark Crown Court for money laundering in one of the biggest cases of its kind in the UK. The fine relates to a £400m criminally-based money laundering ring centred on Bradford gold dealer and jeweller Fowler Oldfield. Huge sums of cash, up to £2m a day, […]
Creating A Chart Of Accounts: A Practical Guide For Financial Advisory Firms
Financial advisory firm owners often rely on their firms’ financial data to make decisions for their businesses. But the quality of that data – how it is organized and how much detail it provides about the firm’s activities – can greatly affect the firm owner’s ability to make good, informed decisions. The firm’s Chart of […]
What will your business look like in 2022? It’s reinvention time
As a peculiar and tumultuous year draws to a close, it’s time to take a step back and reassess what your business will look like in 2022. It’s clear from the business landscape in Australia that you may need to radically replan and renew what you do and how you do it. Your survival may […]
What will your business look like in 2022? It’s reinvention time
As a peculiar and tumultuous year draws to a close, it’s time to take a step back and reassess what your business will look like in 2022. It’s clear from the business landscape in Australia that you may need to radically replan and renew what you do and how you do it. Your survival may […]
Weekend Reading for Financial Planners (Dec 11-12)
Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading for Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with news about the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing of a case involving the Northwestern University employee retirement plan, whose participants claim that the plan’s administrators breached their fiduciary duties by offering ‘too many’ choices and providers, such that they […]
Editor’s Column: Freedom to make a mistake
The Pension Freedoms were introduced in 2015 by Chancellor George Osborne and were hailed, at the time, as a “pensions revolution” and the biggest changes to pensions in a century. Ever since then the jury has been out on whether they were a good idea. The jury is still sitting. I do not think the […]