Happy new year! Happy new decade! I'm going to go out on a limb and hope that the coming ten years will be more pleasant for the financial services world than the Double-Bubble decade we just came out of, although my strong suspicion is that the Wall Street firms are going to get off scot-free from any new regulatory scrutiny and busily dig us all back into a hole just like the one we came out of.
And maybe that's why I feel that my two cats have more credentials as a financial services mover and shaker than Rick Ketchum of FINRA. (What visible harm are THEY doing?) But I think the other selections, and particularly Don Trone on the cover, are excellent and interesting choices. Trone was talking about the fiduciary standard long before anybody could pronounce it, and he's done more to bring the financial planning world into that sphere than any other two people I can think of. You'll be hearing more about Eleanor Blayney and her network of women consumers/advisors, and Steve Holdsworth and Carl Richards are working on changing the planning world while most of the rest of us are trying to get through some of the work on our desk.
Meanwhile, this issue of Financial Planning includes a heartfelt column by me (Bob Veres), which, by necessity, remains unrated, plus profiles of Raymond James and Cambridge Investment Research. And Ed Slott does his usual great job of explaining IRA/Roth IRA issues. If I were doing this Movers and Shakers thing, I might have included Ed on the list in this Year of the Roth.
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