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Should your firm offer a robo-advice platform? Here's what your peers are doing

From InvestmentNews
Added on March 2017 in Other Ideas
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Summary: The latest research from InvestmentNews finds that offering a robo-advice platform may not be right for all advisory firms, but all firms can learn how to harness technology to offer innovative service.

What "Wedding Crashers" and speed dating teach advisers about networking

From OnWallStreet
Added on March 2017 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: In my first year as an adviser, I looked past social media and the internet to tear through the networking circuit with reckless abandon. Night in and night out, I would attend networking functions, typically sponsored by a local chamber of commerce. Attendees would show up to mix and mingle, with the main goal of handing out and collecting as many business cards as possible.

Merrill breakaway launches RIA with an eye on cross-border wealth

From Financial Planning
Added on March 2017 in Form an RIA
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Summary: An ex-Merrill Lynch adviser opened a new RIA under Dynasty Financial Partners in the fifth new firm launched through Dynasty’s outsourcing platform this year.Avestar Capital will focus, in part, on cross-border wealth planning, particularly clients with inheritances or investments in both the U.S. and India.

'Approachability' continues to be the one-word descriptor of what separates good RIAs from the ones who struggle

From RIABiz
Added on March 2017 in Other Ideas
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Summary: Money is a prickly topic so channeling your inner porcupine, leaving people hanging by the receptionists desk and delivering monologues about smart-beta is dumb

Building the Business Your Clients Desire

From Barron's Advisor Center
Added on March 2017 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Apple and Google, the world’s most valuable brands, attained their status by delivering products and services that their clients desire, rather than what they need. Prior to Apple’s launch of the iPod, for instance, the average consumer only dreamed of carrying his entire music library in his pocket. But now, we take for granted the ability to play virtually any song ever recorded on demand.

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