Advisor Awareness of Client's Capacity Can Protect From Financial Exploitation

Advisor awareness of client's capacity can protect from financial exploitation. In efforts to safeguard vulnerable people against financial exploitation, assessing their capacity to understand financial concepts is a key requirement, writes Angela Ghesquiere of the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College. In a guest blog post for SIFMA, Ghesquiere explores the challenges and developments in making those assessments and concludes there is more work to be done, particularly in standardizing definitions. 

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