By: Steve Sadler, CEO, Allegiancy, CrowdFundBeat  Sr. contributing guest, Last week I spoke at FinFair 2015, a retail alternatives event hosted by Dara Albright in New York, about, “How Financial Advisors and Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) can Capitalize on Reg A.” The conference sought to bridge the gap between the Wall Street establishment and today’s financial innovators. I sought to bridge that gap by encouraging financial leaders to “brainstorm in the firestorm” created by the 2012 Jumpstart our Business Startups (JOBS) Act’s new Reg A.       Here were my key messages for today’s financial innovators: The 2012 JOBS Act is bringing big massive change to Wall Street, and the value of your expertise is at a premium. The democratization of capital is here, and it is moving faster by the day. Financial advisors, nowis your chance to get in position to ride the wave. The path back to dynamism in America is in front of you, and there is both danger in ignoring it, and enormous opportunity in embracing it. Now, anyone can be an investment banker, and everyone can be a private equity investor. So how will investors differentiate between great deals, good deals, and truly horrible ones? […]

JOBS Act has created unprecedented opportunity for financial advisors – don’t get left out in the cold: CrowdFund Beat.


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