From Finacial Advisor IQ
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Summary: Many financial advisors join forces at some point, either with peers or with clients’ accountants and attorneys, to decide what’s best for those clients. And in any convocation of experts, disagreements are bound to arise. Advice firms can take steps to make sure healthy debate doesn’t sour into discord that could wind up endangering client relationships.
From aRIA: Alliance for Registered Investment Advisors,
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Summary: Best-managed advisory firms are constantly innovating, revising their business plans and seeking to drive the next iteration of growth. What is different for advisory firms now is the pace of change is so fast that standing still is not an option – advisors may simply be lapped by the field!
From Financial Planning
Added on November 2013 in Other Ideas
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Summary: You don't have to be an industry veteran to achieve great things. A recent study discovers a select group of advisors who are enjoying significant success even though they're quite new to the industry. These advisors all had less than five years of experience when we surveyed them, but already had reached $50 million in assets under management - a milestone some advisors never achieve. We dug deeper to understand who these advisors are and how they accomplished such impressive results in such a short time. Here's what we learned.
From Financial Advisor IQ
Added on November 2013 in Other Ideas
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Summary: Since the holiday shopping season officially starts immediately after Halloween, it’s not too early for advisors to start thinking about what kind of swag they’ll bestow on clients this year.
From On Wall Street
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Summary: There is heavy competition for the relatively few unattached experienced advisors, mainly due to the fact that firms can assign client responsibilities to these hires immediately, without extra training, and expect them to start generating revenue immediately -- especially if they have an existing book of business. Yet with big demand and small supply, prices are high (and continue to escalate) for this type of advisor.