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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Oct 15-16)

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Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that the Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) for Social Security beneficiaries will be 8.7% Why accounting firms have become hot acquisition targets for RIAs.

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How Advisors Can Offer Tax Planning And Stay In Compliance

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And the consequences for incorrect tax advice can include legal and financial penalties if a client were to be harmed by the wrong advice – which is often not covered by the firm’s E&O insurance –creating an expensive liability when tax advice goes wrong.

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What to Know About the Corporate Transparency Act

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The CTA and the disclosure obligations it imposes upon reporting companies is designed to help safeguard national security and provide US law enforcement agencies with an additional tool to fight financial crimes, such as money laundering, trafficking, tax fraud, and other illicit activities.

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What to Know About the Corporate Transparency Act

CFO Simplified

The CTA and the disclosure obligations it imposes upon reporting companies is designed to help safeguard national security and provide US law enforcement agencies with an additional tool to fight financial crimes, such as money laundering, trafficking, tax fraud, and other illicit activities.

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Dropping A B/D License Without Dropping Current B/D Platform

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And that’s what they get for the fact that they have to be part of the calls, they have to facilitate interaction with the insurance company or any transactions, because it’s a securities business, you don’t have a securities license now. So you need like a non-advisory account attached to the RIA side of the business.

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Barry Ritholtz

So then we decided, look, look, maybe we should put all of these businesses together and create a securities division. And that’s how we created the securities division. We now had the securities business. And the credit fund had bought a debt security from one of the, their private equity’s own deals.

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