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Betterment Redesigns Advisor Dashboard With More Tools, Analytics
The changes kick off a rollout of new features coming to Betterment for Advisors in 2019.
Michael Thrasher | Nov 16, 2018
Betterment, the automated advice platform that manages more than $13.5 billion, has redesigned the dashboard that financial advisors use to manage investors' money with the company. The changes are rolling out to users of Betterment for Advisors today.
Advisors now have a more detailed overview of client assets, net deposits and pending client activity at their fingertips, as well as a new navigation bar. Previously, the dashboard only included assets under management and was thin on account details. Now it shows the aggregate balance of client accounts with Betterment and weekly net deposits. It also automatically populates a list of clients with pending activities they need to complete, like opening a joint account, where the advisor can send an email to remind them with the push of a button.
Alex Choi, Betterment's head of Advisor Success, who is responsible for practice and relationship management with advisors using the platform, said feedback from users helped drive and prioritize the changes. But the updates are also in line with the company's long-term goals for the platform. From the start, Choi said Betterment for Advisors has sought to achieve simple, intuitive design but it also plans on providing more tools and analytics.
In fact, the new dashboard is somewhat of a launchpad for new features in the pipeline. Betterment plans to continue to develop new tools and more analytics for advisors throughout 2019, a spokesperson said.
In September, Betterment for Advisors added a Trust Account Opening feature, allowing advisors to open an account on behalf of clients and manage the entire paperless process. The company also did something similar in August and streamlined the process for rolling over retirement accounts.
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The March Equinox 2021, falls on the 20th-21st, depending on your timezone. It marks the moment of equal hours of night and day, and also the Sun's move into the tropical zodiac sign of Aries.
As Aries is considered the first sign of the zodiac, the March Equinox is also the start of the astrological new year, and represents the beginning of a new zodiac cycle.
The March Equinox also brings the arrival of a new season, depending on where in the world you live. For those in the Northern Hemisphere, it represents the start of Spring. For those in the Southern Hemisphere, it represents the start of Autumn.
All of this combined makes the March Equinox a powerful day for renewal, new beginnings, fresh energy, and a shift in our perspective.
Depending on what Mother Nature is doing around us, we may feel called to blossom and sprout, or we may feel called to release and let go in order to prepare for the new.
Mother Nature can be our guide and show us which way the energies are moving for us.
We may also intuitively feel around this time that we can really welcome the energies of the year 2021, and understand the tone of what may be ahead for us.
In ancient times, the Equinox was also believed to be a point where the veil between this world and higher realms was thin. It was at this point in the year where we could hear the wisdom of our ancestors, nature spirits, and our spirit guides, guiding us forward or signaling to us what needs to be done.
The energies of the Equinox were said to be a magical time, where harmony fell on the planet and where we could embody an equal balance of dark and light.
Just like a yin and yang symbol, we can't have one without the other. We need darkness to see the light and we need the light to recognize the darkness.
The Equinox is about honoring both of these qualities that live within- our shadow and our divine light. It is about acknowledging that working with this duality is the journey of our souls here at Earth School.
For the 2021 Equinox, the asteroid Chiron is hovering near the Aries Sun, shining its influence and giving us clues as the journey to come as we begin this new astrological cycle.
Chiron is known as the wounded healer. Even though it has suffered terrible trauma, injuries, and injustices, it is able to use this as fuel to help heal others.
Chiron has mastered the art of taking its wounds and turning them into portals of strength and inspiration. It is Chiron's presence that makes us feel less alone. It is Chiron's presence that allows us to remember that our traumas need not bring us down, but can instead, be fuel for our rising.
Call this energy into your life however you see fit. Use the message of Chiron to remind you of your own strength and your own superpower to take the pains of the past and turn them into portals of potential.
This Chiron energy will be active all through the month and even into April, so allow it to move and work in its own way through your life.
Seeing as the Equinox is also the start of the astrological year, it is also a good time for reflection and for bringing closure to the last 12 months.
If we think back to March 2020, so much in our lives has changed. We went from living life one way, to being forced to make some pretty drastic shifts.
On a collective level, we have dealt with a lot of grief, change, anxieties, fear, and uncertainty.
One year later, all of this energy can take its toll so be gentle with yourself, and perhaps find ways to bring more ease and acceptance to where you stand today.
Honor yourself for how well you have dealt with any changes or upheavals to your life, and look for ways that you can bring more ease, peace, and acceptance into your heart." Written by Forever Conscious

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There was never a reason that Scotland was at all likely to buck the trend of a projected slowdown in economic growth in the wake of Brexit.
The caution on business investment south of the Border triggered by the EU referendum was always likely to be reflected in Scotland as well in terms of falling GDP. As such, professional services and accountancy giant PwC's latest economic report will surprise few: it forecasts Scottish economic growth in 2017 will halve to 0.9 per cent next year from 1.8 per cent this year.
That is lower than the 1.2 per cent figure PwC forecasts for the wider UK in 2017, down from 2.1 per cent, but it would still mean, if correct, that recession on both sides of the Border would be avoided.
The problem, however, is that business uncertainty is not just confined to the possible repercussions of the Brexit vote. That is now arguably somewhat small beer compared to the spectre of what a protectionist tariff-spraying and US deficit-mushrooming President Donald Trump could mean for the global economy.
If Brexit was going to make Scottish businesses think twice before investing ahead of knowing the new EU trading ground rules, there is a significant Trump multiplier effect.
Similarly, although PwC thinks, with much justification in my view, that Brexit is more likely to act as a drag on the economy over an extended period rather than imparting any short, sharp setback, any trade war launched by the unpredictable Trump (China is in his sights, in particular) could be an overnight game-changer for business uncertainty.
We are in uncharted waters, and if recession is avoided next year, as PwC predicts, it should really be a case of thanks for small mercies.
It is funny in the business world how after the fever of takeovers passes, executives go back to the day job: trying to squeeze out organic growth.
William Hill has had a torrid time in the takeover handicap derby this year. First it was the subject of a joint unsolicited takeover bid from Rank Group and 888, followed by its own abortive tie-up with Canadian poker firm Amaya. Surprise, surprise, under interim chief executive Philip Bowcock, the latest four-month trading update is pretty positive.


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Writing a CV when you're an experienced nurse can be a balancing act of giving enough information about your career while maintaining a relatively short document. In this article we show you what you can prioritise, and what can be left out.
Over the course of your nursing career you will build up quite a portfolio of professional development achievements, experience and competencies and it can be quite a juggling act to present all the relevant information in a logical order on your a CV.
The ideal length for a nursing CV is always hotly debated, but we recommend not more than 2 sides of A4 regardless of the length of your nursing career. Any more than that and it can really discourage a nursing employer who just simply wants to know if you have the qualifications and experience to do the nursing job they're recruiting for.
Your nursing CV has one specific job to do and that is to convince the employer reading it that you're suitable for the job so they should definitely offer you an interview.
It doesn't need to be an exhaustive record of every singly achievement and every previous job, but it does need to showcase your nursing skills in an accessible way.
There isn't much that upsets a time-poor recruitment officer more than receiving a CV from a very obviously experienced nurse that begins in chronological order.
It sounds obvious, but your most recent nursing job is more relevant to this job application than the one you did when you first qualified, so the general rule of CVs is always most recent first (reverse chronological order).
You aren't required to submit a full and complete history of all your past employments and qualifications on a CV, if the employer requires this they will usually ask you to complete their own application form, so you can use the space on your CV to draw the attention to the nursing experience you have that is relevant to the job you're applying for.
Don't worry about including previous employments before you were a nurse, especially if they were several years ago.
Plenty of very experienced nurses came into nurse training after they had worked in other industries, and while that employment experience can be valuable it's not necessarily essential for your current nursing CV.
Transferable skills are obviously important and can be relevant across many different professions, but listing every single job you ever did starting with your first ever saturday job isn't going to be the most efficient use of space on your nursing CV.
While you should ideally update your nursing CV on a regular basis, the reality is you will probably be updating it when you've seen a job advertised that you want to apply for.
In many ways that works just as well as updating it regularly because you have a couple of resources you can use to stimulate your thoughts for updating the CV - and those are the job description and person specification included in the job advert.
When you read the job description and the person specification you should get a detailed insight into the ideal candidate for the job, the skills that person will have and the range of experience they will need.
The key is then to take that information and identify as many of the criteria as possible in yourself by highlighting them on your CV. I don't literally mean take a highlighter and turn them pink, I mean rearrange your CV so the employer's eye is drawn to the qualities you have that they're looking for.
This could mean that underneath your name and contact details on your CV you could create an 'essential skills' section, or that your professional development achievements go at the top instead.
1 - Your full name must be the first line of the CV.
2 - Your address, phone numbers and email address must come next.
3 - You must include current employment with a description of the role, previous relevant employment, education, qualifications and professional registration.
4 - Employment history should be presented in reverse chronological order.
5 - Explain gaps in your employment history - including family breaks, travelling and any other time you took a break from your career.
6 - You must not make any false claims about experience of qualifications you do not posses.
7 - Use a clear, easy to read font ensuring that you use layout tools such as paragraphs and bullet points to make reading it easier.
You can search for your next nursing or midwifery job on our job search page.