Gathering client data upfront is a critical, but often unnecessarily difficult, first step of any financial advisor-client relationship. Too often, wealth management firms still rely on spreadsheets, ...

Creating a base of loyal clients and customers who come back to purchase goods and services after an initial purchase is essential for small businesses to be successful. Remembering who clients are ...

You can probably tell when your clients are drowning in too much information. Daily bombardments of intra-day trading figures, predictions of doom from TV experts who have no personal stake in the ...

Among the biggest challenges advisors face is simply getting the data needed to execute a client’s financial plan. Without information to enter into the planning software, it’s impossible to ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. With all of the conversations surrounding hyper-personalization, I have yet to find a ...

Increasingly, clients of CPA firms impose confidentiality agreements as a precondition to engaging the firm to perform professional services. These may appear in the form of a separate nondisclosure ...

New York, August 21, 2013 – Bloomberg L.P. today released a report resulting from an external review of the company’s client data policies and procedures, led by the law firm Hogan Lovells and the ...

You walk into your office on a Saturday morning during tax season to find a staff member waiting for you with sweaty palms and a look of terror on her face. She takes ...

It is well-established that attorneys and their clients are entitled to private and protected communications. But what level of protections are available when an accountant is used in an engagement to ...