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Advisors, Don't Be Dichotomous Thinkers

From ThinkAdvisor
Added on December 2016 in Other Ideas
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Summary: Pundits like to make fun of the tradition of New Year’s resolutions, pointing out all the failures to actually follow through on those resolutions. Yet Americans keep making them, year after year. According to the Statistic Brain Research Institute, 45% of us usually make resolutions, but only 8% succeed in following them.

How to Sniff out the B.S. In a Marketing Proposal

From IRIS
Added on December 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: I admit it. I didn’t get it for a long time. There I was, working in-house at advisor firms, putting out RFPs to marketing agencies and consultants as part of my daily job responsibilities. The proposals would come back. I’d review them, cheerfully nodding at all the big promises, all the corporate happy talk.

The Long-Term Benefits of Integrated Technology

From WealthManagement.com
Added on December 2016 in Form an RIA
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Summary: Operational efficiencies in these areas enable your business to do what it does best better, while also growing in a scalable manner. So a key question your firm needs to answer is: will the technology solution for processing and compliance be a platform system or a point system?

Is This Firm the Right One?

From WealthManagement.com
Added on December 2016 in Join an RIA
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Summary: The most stressful time for an advisor who’s thinking about leaving their firm is the time “in between”—that is, the time between deciding it’s time to go and actually making the leap.   

2017 Career Guide: Next-Gen Nurturing

From ThinkAdvisor
Added on December 2016 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: Growing an advisory firm today requires more than just attracting more clients and managing more of their assets. Without a talented second string of junior advisors to take over for departing leaders, a firm’s current clients could find they are suddenly DIY investors, without the education, experience or inclination to take on managing their wealth.

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