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Financial Advisor September 2007 Joel Bruckenstein	File Trials Today's regulatory, legal and security environments demand a more robust document management solution and financial advisors who downplay these issues may find themselves doing so at their own risk.
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Investment Advisor February 2008 Thomas D. Giachetti	Is an IPS the Answer? Investment Policy Statements can be helpful, but remember, longer documents aren't always better.
Financial Advisor February 2010 Joel P. Bruckenstein	One For The Short List Document management system Image Executive allows advisors to operate more productively, efficiently and securely.
Financial Advisor July 2008 David Lawrence	Keeping The Record Straight Financial Planning Association President Mark Johannessen and Andrew J. "Buddy" Donohue, director of the investment management division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, discuss current regulatory issues affecting the financial planning profession.
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Investment Advisor July 2006 Thomas D. Giachetti, esq.	Expert's Corner: Passing Muster Is your electronic record keeping up to SEC snuff? Financial advisors should exercise discretion and diligence regarding electronic record retention and communication procedures. When in doubt, retain the hard copy original or make a phone call.
Financial Advisor March 2005 Tracey Longo	The Watchdog Inside Your Firm The SEC is making your chief compliance officer a whistleblower. Advisors' success with regulators in 2005 will depend largely on whether they trip themselves up or are able to create a business model that is better aligned with their clients.
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Financial Advisor June 2008 David Lawrence	Keeping It Private In this age of malicious software, computer viruses, and other means of stealing information, it should seem obvious to most financial advisors to take steps to protect client and firm data. Yet many firms still do not do this.
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Investment Advisor February 2007 Thomas D. Giachetti	When Should You Register? Should an investment advisor with $30 million of "assets under management" register with the SEC? It depends on whether the advisor has "qualifying" assets under management.
Investment Advisor January 2007 Melanie Waddell	Getting Compliance Help Now If you're one of those financial advisory firms that's still dithering on the sidelines hoping that your compliance program is up to snuff, it's time to get serious. A good place to turn for help is the Regulatory Compliance Association's new CCO University.
Financial Planning September 1, 2012 Bob Veres	Why Doesn't the RIA Community Come Up With Better Proposals? Instead of fighting against bad proposals, shouldn't the RIA community be proposing better alternatives? We assume that the goal of the Dodd-Frank Act is to tighten up lax RIA regulation.
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