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Justin Lafazan is an acclaimed entrepreneur, speaker, best-selling author and consultant with three companies under his belt at just 20 years old. The Founder of Next Gen Summit and best-selling author of What Wakes You Up?, has been featured in Forbes, USA Today,The Huffington Post, Inc. Magazine and more. Justin is on a mission to inspire the world’s young people to design the lives they want to live, through entrepreneurship.

Illness, injury, and wears and tears of aging put extreme stress on a person’s life physically, emotionally, and financially. When a spouse becomes ill or a parent loses mental capabilities, the two main priorities become healthcare and family time.

What a week! Many things about this week are extraordinary, game changing, and uncertain - so naturally everyone has a lot of new questions to think about. One of the questions our industry has right now, is “How will the election results affect the DOL Fiduciary Rule?” To start attempting to find an answer to this complicated and important question, we turned to our resident expert and Chief Compliance Officer, Barry Champney for some of his initial insights. 

Have you ever wanted to invest with your values to build a brighter future alongside a stronger portfolio, but couldn’t find product?

Ever been confused about the difference between Philanthropy, Socially Responsible Investing, Sustainable Investing, ESG Investing, and Impact Investing, but couldn’t find a solid answer?

Ever tried to explain the impact movement to a client who thought it was just a fad?

Well, us too, but good news - we’ve found the solution and it’s a free collaborative platform called Impact U.

I am on a flight on my way back from the 2016 WinOPS User Groups Conference in Denver for a group of BD Operations and Compliance professionals where I was invited to speak on a panel with Industry Titans, John Simmers (former CEO of the ING Advisor Network with more than 8,500 registered representatives) and Jane Reilly (President of NSCP) about the current state of DOL and what we should be doing.