College Planning
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Big Firms Boosting Series 7 Courses at Colleges to Address Looming Headcount Crisis
By Emily ZulzFive financial services firms have paid for 23 universities across the U.S. to offer Series 7 courses using Securities Training Corp. materials.
January 08, 2016
What Clients Need and What Advisors Aren’t Doing: Liz DavidsonThe Financial Finesse founder offered ThinkAdvisor some pointers on how advisors can attract and retain clients and where she thinks the business is heading.
December 31, 2015
15 Best Paying Jobs for College Business Majors: 2015PayScale looks at popular careers for business majors and the salaries that can be expected.
December 31, 2015
30 Best Paying College Majors: 2015The rankings are based on data collected by PayScale.com from 1,000 universities and 207 different bachelors degrees.
December 31, 2015
30 Worst Paying College Majors: 2015Data collected by PayScale shows the university degrees with the least payback.
December 30, 2015
Puerto Rico to Default on $37 Million of Payments Due Jan. 1Puerto Rico governor says $35.9 million Infrastructure Financing payment to be skipped; $1.4 million Public Finance Corp. debt will not be paid.
December 28, 2015
Not So Fast: Maybe Consumers Aren't as Dumb as We SeemIve never been a fan of standardized tests. The best answer depends at least as much on the test taker's knowledge and understanding of the test creator.
December 28, 2015
How Advisors Can Profit From the Talent ShortageThe supply of new advisor associates is so low that the demand is driving compensation to astronomical levels, creating a dilemma for smaller advisory firms.