Getting your social media footing

→  April 11th, 2011  →  blog social media strategy tools

After reading Evan Zall’s article Traction on a Slippery Slope, I’d wished I had written it. Zall captures the unique predicament in which regulated financial advisors find themselves regarding their use of social media and he offers some pragmatic advice: engage proactively, but do so with caution. In this post, I will build on Zall’s [...]

Social media use and regulatory compliance for financial advisors in Canada

→  October 6th, 2010  →  blog social media

There is a growing buzz surrounding social media use in the financial services sector in Canada and the US and lots of advisors are getting online and engaged. However, there are some important questions about compliance that continue to be asked – but for which there are few clear answers. In the US, regulators have [...]