Former Avantax Advisors Cite Service Decline, Mounting Fees, Shrinking Payouts Amid a proxy battle with an activist investor, advisors who recently left Avantax say service levels suffered and fees rose after parent company Blucora acquired and combined their broker/dealers.
Last month, RIA and investor Ancora started a public proxy battle with executives of Blucora, the parent company of Avantax Wealth Management, the tax-centric broker/dealer created from the acquisitions of HD Vest and 1st Global. Ancora argues Blucora is mismanaging Avantax, resulting in a net loss of 100 advisors over the previous year, and over 700 advisors over the last five years.
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In the basement of the Legacy Building in El Paso, Illinois is a small corner room with a wall of cinderblocks filling a doorway that once led to the street above. Around 125 years ago locals entered here for a shave and a chat with their barber, David Strother.
Now just a dim light from a single bulb reveals the remaining frame and narrow countertop of Strother’s barber station, just enough to imagine how it once looked.
When it comes to Central Illinois historical figures, El Paso, a small city just off Interstate 39 in Woodford County, is most often celebrated as the birthplace of Fulton Sheen, the Catholic archbishop on a contentious road toward sainthood. But more than 20 years before Sheen’s birth, Strother, the town’s humble and beloved barber and a veteran of the Civil War, had already made history here as the first Black American in Illinois, and one of the first in the nation, to exercise his right to vote.
WCBU s On Deck has everything you need to know to start your day for Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Our top story is about how a Morton family is creating a new scholarship to help students with dyslexia achieve their goals in higher education. You ll also hear how in 1870 in the small town of El Paso, IL, a barber and Civil War veteran named David Strother was the first Black man in the state, and one of the first in the country, to exercise his legal right to vote in an election. Just as important: it was a local election. To commemorate Strother for Black History Month and encourage Peoria residents to vote in today s election, Tory Dahlhoff brings us his story.
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