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FA 100: CNBC ranks the top-rated financial advisory firms of 2020

Finding the right financial advisor to help with your financial needs and goals can be complicated. The CNBC FA 100 celebrates those advisory firms that top the list when it comes to offering comprehensive planning and financial services to help clients navigate their complex financial lives.

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Advisors use technology to handle challenge in helping clients adjust to the new environment

Advisory firms have had to find ways to be able to adapt through the use of virtual technologies to keep their meetings going with clients. That newfound comfort will probably change advisory practices well into the future.

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Financial advisors predict a Biden win and more market volatility ahead: CNBC FA 100 survey

In a poll of top-rated advisory firms, there is a near-even split on the election outcome and the market's reaction. However, most see volatility as opportunity.

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Advisors adapt to 'new normal' as pandemic has changed how firms connect with clients

As disruptive and unsettling as the coronavirus pandemic has been for the U.S. economy, financial markets and virtually every American family, the country's top financial advisors have managed to smoothly adapt to these circumstances.

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Mastercard and Visa seek to get the most out of the digital-payments boom

The Economist | Oct 3, 2020 The credit-card duopoly is crashing the faster-payments party THE GREATEST accolade a payment system can aspire to is to be forgotten about. “People don’t want to make payments,” says Diana Layfield, an executive on Google’s payments team. “They want to do what a payment facilitates.” The industry’s biggest battles


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No $1,200 stimulus check? IRS extends key deadline for those who never received the money

Millions of Americans could have been shut out of receiving their $1,200 stimulus checks because they didn't have their information on file with the IRS. Now, an extended deadline means they have five additional weeks to submit for their payments.

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Job scams have increased as Covid-19 put millions of Americans out of work. Here's how to avoid one

Employment scams, including fake job listings, have been on the rise during the coronavirus crisis. The uptick comes as millions of Americans are out of work due to Covid-19 and are searching for new jobs. Here's how to detect and avoid falling for one.

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A Georgia financial firm's owner has disappeared, and possibly so has client money. How to vet your own advisor

The case of a financial advisor in Georgia who has been reported missing, in the midst of an investigation related to his firm, is a good reminder to investors that they should always do their homework before working with an advisor.

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12 million people asked the IRS for more time to file taxes. How to make it painless

Whether you're an adrenaline junkie or a tried and true procrastinator, the final deadline for submitting your 2019 income tax return — if you went on extension — is on Oct. 15.

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Stock market is ‘OK,’ right now, says top advisor on CNBC's FA 100 list

Stocks prices are neither cheap nor pricy given prevailing interest rates and other factors like federal stimulus money, according to the president of Salem Investment Counselors, the top financial advisory firm on CNBC's FA100 list.

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The stock market appears to be coiling for a tension release

The markets are coiling and compressing as they process jarring events, with potential energy building up for eventual release.

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Op-ed: More people are creating wills amid the pandemic

Many people mistakenly believe that they don't have enough in assets to warrant a will, or that their money will automatically go to their next of kin. Both assumptions are wrong.

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New York’s free college program could run out of cash due to Covid-19

The coronavirus pandemic caused state revenues to plummet, leaving New York's Excelsior Scholarship program facing a significant shortfall.

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UK Equity Crowdfunding platforms Crowdcube and Seedrs to merge

Yahoo News Release Crowdcube and Seedrs | Oscar Williams-Grut | Oct 5, 2020 The UK’s two biggest crowdfunding platforms have announced plans to merge. Crowdcube and Seedrs said in a joint statement on Monday they had agreed the terms of a merger. The combined company will be worth £140m ($181.2m). Crowdcube will acquire Seedrs under


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Op-ed: Why a more conservative Supreme Court is bad for small business

If Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, a more conservative group of justices may cost small businesses, and a current case involving Ford helps explain why.

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