Bet you didn’t know that HighTower—recently named #13 on Inc. magazine’s 2012 list of the 5,000 fastest growing U.S. private companies—is the frontrunner in the use of social media by financial advisory firms anywhere. It’s not surprising when you consider ...
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I have always been a law-abiding Tweep. So, seeing a pink banner from Twitter police splashed across the top of my profile last week was a real shock. Seeing all of my followers and those I follow reduced to zero ...
You hear about it a lot nowadays when people in the securities industry talk about social media: Adoption & Entanglement. Now, people adopt children. They adopt cats or causes. Seems like an easy enough concept to understand. And last weekend, ...
Smartphone ownership is surging, with 35% of adults in the U.S. now having one, according to a May survey by the Pew Charitable Trust. The “financially well-off and well-educated, non-whites, and those under the age of 45” are leading the ...
Most mid-sized securities firms are struggling to understand how to use Facebook in their business. They know that Millennials, affluent investors, and the rest of American industry are way ahead of them in its adoption. But they’re worried that examiners ...
Maybe it doesn’t rank up there with the light bulb, but YouTube is a great invention, isn’t it? All sorts of people are posting things on YouTube. Even the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which just posted clips for the ...
