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Financial Planning And Advice Industry And The Department Of Labor Essay

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This paper is an analysis of the Financial Planning and Advice industry and the Department of Labor’s recently finalized law regarding the definition of an “Investment Advice Fiduciary”. The secondary focus will be on the company Robinhood Financial, LLC. 1.) Internal Performance Robinhood Financial, LLC’s values are modern, as is fitting for a new company. Their values are “Exceptionally engineered systems”, “Simplicity”, and “Individual participation in equity markets” (Robinhood, 2016). The company has few stakeholders as a small, young, private company. The biggest investor for their seed round of funding was Index Ventures. Other notable investors were Google Ventures, IT Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Frontier Tech Ventures. According to SEC records form X-17A-5 that was submitted by Robinhood on 02/23/2016, their financials look like they are in good condition. Their assets total $2,257,938, in which $1,824,713 of their assets is cash, around 80 percent. Their liabilities total $249,628, which is quite small, leaving a relatively massive amount of member’s equity at $2,008,310 (SEC, 2016). In total, Robinhood has received $66,000,000 from investors (crunchbase, 2016). Currently, there are no patents that I am aware of, or major law disputes for the company. They only have two mobile apps as consumer products, with a brand-new subscription service that starts at $10 a month. Since previously Robinhood was completely free, this now gives them the opportunity to

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