No Man Is An Island
This article describes how so-called study groups — the aggregation of several financial planning firms into a group that relies upon and networks with each other — can give a small firm the power of a large one.
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Hey You Men, Listen Up . . .
Insight and color on why female financial planners are, by one important measure, much more successful than their male conterparts.
Experts Corner – Accessing and Using Information in the Public Domain
What kind of information is floating around in the public domain, and how can you access it?
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Expert’s Corner – Firing Clients
Is there any way to “fire” a client nicely? Developing skills in pruning clients can be every bit as important as developing the skills to bring them on.
Cost Basis: The Foundation of Performance
This monograph is a short primer on on determining the most fundamental of investment concepts — determining cost basis.
Gifts and Inheritances: Where Death and Taxes Finally Meet
This article explores some of the basic concepts concerning how to determine the basis of assets you inherit or receive as a gift. This is a companion to an earlier article which explored basic tenants of determining cost basis.
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Other Dimensions of Forensic Accounting
When PriceWaterhouseCoopers published The Auditor’s Guide To Forensic Accounting Investigations, it became apparent that the corporate accounting scandals of 2001- 2003 had indelibly linked fraud investigations with foresnic accounting. But the truth is that foresnic accounting goes well beyond fraud detection. As a result, I was hired to help write a chapter titled Other Dimensions of Forensic Accounting. Comprehensive and lengthy, the chapter devled into the role foresnic accountants play in the following areas: construction, environmental, intellectual property, government contracting, insurance and business interruption, marital dissolution, shareholder litigation, business valuation, business combinations and cybercrime
Highlighting Critical Issues at the Dawning of a New Day
Though the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was made law in 2002, years later directors, chief executives and chief financial officers debate its meaning and its impact on the relationship between boards of directors and the management teams they monitor. In this piece, I worked with PriceWaterhouseCoopers summarizing the views of these constituencies as expressed in a syposioum held in New York City during the spring of 2004.
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You’re Invited
The tried and true way to attract new business is the good old investment seminar. It’s not sexy. But it works, if you can get the details right.
Separately Managed Accounts: Be Careful What you Wish For
Separately managed accounts represent a good way for asset managers to increase throughput. But be careful what you wish for. Those assets may come flying in the door, but so do the questions about how well they are being managed.
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