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AFCPE® Award Winners Set the Standard for Financial Counseling & Education

Dec 2, 2015

PR Newswire - Each year, professional members of the Association for Financial Counseling & Education® (AFCPE®) nominate fellow financial educators, researchers and practitioners who represent the great work happening in the field of personal finance. "We are pleased to recognize the exceptional work done this year in financial counseling and education. This year's award winners represent innovation, expertise and leadership. Their work helps us set the standard and shape the future of the field," said AFCPE Executive Director, Rebecca Wiggins.

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National Survey Finds Americans Overwhelmingly Prefer a Presidential Candidate Committed to Expanding Access to Addiction Treatment

Dec 1, 2015

BioPortfolio - With less than one year until Election 2016 and as America's addiction epidemic receives increasing attention from citizens and policymakers, a nationally representative survey finds that 73% of American voters favor a presidential candidate willing to expand access to addiction treatment and recovery services. This is a key finding of the 2015 MAP Recovery Network National Addiction and Recovery Survey commissioned by MAP Health Management and conducted by national survey research firm,The Mellman Group.

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Study Says Women With More Tattoos Actually Have Higher Self-Esteem

Dec 1, 2015

Elite Daily - A new study suggests that women with tattoos actually have higher self-esteem than their ink-less female counterparts.

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Schwab: RIAs Ascending, but $23 Trillion Is There for the Taking

Dec 1, 2015

ThinkAdvisor - In its most recent quarterly earnings release, Charles Schwab reported it held $1.1 trillion in RIA assets at Schwab Advisor Services (SAS). But at its 25th annual Impact conference in Boston in mid-November, the head of SAS, Bernie Clark, encouraged RIAs to think even bigger, saying Schwab was committed to helping advisors gather more of the estimated $23 trillion in affluent client assets that live outside the RIA channel (affluent defined here as client accounts with $500,000 or more in investable assets).

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