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Financial Advisor November 2005 Grove & Prince |
A Dangerous Disconnect Many advisors don't understand what their wealthy clients want -- or need. By being able to deal with the planning concerns of the affluent by brining in the proper experts, the financial advisor will end up growing his or her business. |
Registered Rep. June 6, 2012 Matt Oechsli |
Debunking the Brochure Myth Promotional material doesn't influence prospects. Advisors are their own brand. |
Registered Rep. April 25, 2013 Matt Oechsli |
Friend Me The Oechsli Institute's 2013 Affluent Investor Research paints a very clear picture: Today's affluent investor insists on having a business and personal relationship with their financial advisor. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 John J Bowen Jr |
Wide-Angle Lens Too many advisors focus almost exclusively on their clients' investments and ignore a number of other important areas. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr. |
How to Reach Million-Dollar Clients To move your practice onward and upward, you may need to reconfigure the way you do business. Here s how. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2006 Matt Oechsli |
Warning or Opportunity? Here are new affluent client issues that can be both warning shots and opportunities for financial advisors: Increasing Internet Savvy... Dissatisfaction with Financial Plans... Increased Competition... etc. |
Registered Rep. October 19, 2011 Matt Oechsli |
Crafting Your Occupy Wall Street Message Occupy Wall Street is turning into a viral marketing campaign for elite advisors. |
Trusts & Estates January 22, 2002 |
Face-to-face beats online for money advice to wealthy The affluent trust investment professionals, but still research their advice online. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2008 John J Bowen Jr |
Wealth Transfer It's important for financial advisors to understand the profound effects that inherited money has on inheritors when developing a strategy to work with them. |
Financial Advisor March 2005 Grove & Prince |
Know Thy Clients This is the second in a series of articles about the risks, rewards and challenges of wealth management, as well as the ever-changing tools of the trade. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2010 John J. Bowen, Jr. |
Team Player Many advisors have asked me for more specifics about expert teams-what they should look like and how best to build them. |
Registered Rep. December 18, 2014 Matt Oechsli |
The Year of Financial Advisor Transformation For advisors to capture more affluent business and demonstrate their value beyond performance, they'll have to transform their business. |
Registered Rep. October 29, 2015 Matt Oechsli |
Financial Advisors Rock This doesn't diminish a CPA's or estate attorney's expertise, but it does provide a clear signal that the affluent perceive today's financial advisor as the quarterback out of all of these financial experts. |
Financial Advisor April 2004 Grove & Prince |
Creating A Wealth Management Team Team members are competitive, but that shouldn't hurt their service. |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2006 Matt Oechsli |
Developing Your Business Mode Here are five key, but simple, questions to help financial advisors create their perfect business model. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2009 John J. Bowen Jr. |
Expert Positioning You must position yourself so that the clients you want to target see you as a true expert who can address their full range of problems, issues and opportunities. |
Investment Advisor June 2007 Steven T. Merkel |
Today's Wealth Manager Just like anyone can call themselves a "financial planner," any firm can represent themselves as being "wealth management" caliber. So how can you distinguish yourself among all the competition? |
Financial Advisor February 2004 Grove & Prince |
Learning More About Clients With the Whole Client Model How to find out what you need to know about a financial planning client. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 John J. Bowen |
Behind the Buzz Many advisors are "wealth managers" in name only. Here's how to implement the business model in your practice. |
Registered Rep. June 1, 2005 Russ Alan Prince |
Being Advanced Before advisors can provide advanced-planning services they must first understand the process; this article aims to outline the basics. |
Registered Rep. October 5, 2011 Matt Oechsli |
Practice Management Reality Advisor realities regarding practice management can be segmented into four interconnected components, each systematized into a process; wealth management, client loyalty, business development, and operational efficiency. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2007 Matt Oechsli |
Trust Me The affluent are looking for an unbiased professional -- someone they trust -- to guide them through the complexities of today's financial world. They want the financial services equivalent of a family doctor. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Grove & Prince |
Elusive Loyalty It's a serious conundrum for financial advisors: Their success hinges on their ability to cultivate loyalty in their most affluent clients, but many are having a tough time building that loyalty. But financial advisors can learn the skills that promote client loyalty. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2013 Matt Oechsli |
Are You an Elite Advisor? The Oechsli Institute recently conducted its annual advisor survey to discover just that. The research shows what today's affluent clients expect from a financial advisor and what advisors are doing to meet these expectations. |
Investment Advisor April 2009 Lewis Schiff |
Danger & Opportunity: Seling Wisdom Advisors with a wealth-management practice orientation can provide the kind of services affluent families need during difficult market times. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2006 John J. Bowen |
Women of Wealth Financial advisors can use their knowledge of affluent women to create a unique value proposition, and put themselves in a tremendous position to serve a group that's been too long ignored -- and capture more business than ever before. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 John J. Bowen |
Your Network of Experts Working with experts outside of your advisory firm is a key component of successful wealth management. But choosing the right professionals to work with isn't easy. Here's how to do it. |
Financial Advisor February 2006 Grove & Prince |
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The top 1,200 U.S. financial advisors, who regularly earn more than $1 million on an annual basis, rely on characteristics and techniques that can be adopted and refined by a great number of advisors. |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Bernie Clark |
The Changing Affluent Investor Advisors must prepare for new affluent clients and the changes, attitudes and expectations they will bring with them. |
Financial Advisor April 2005 Grove & Prince |
The Wealth Management Mindset Learning to manage solutions for unique clients: This is the third and last article in a series about the risks, rewards and challenges of wealth management. |
Financial Advisor February 2005 Grove & Prince |
Why This Business Is So Tough The first in a series of articles about the risks, rewards and challenges of being a wealth manager, as well as the ever-changing tools of the trade. |
Investment Advisor May 2008 |
Whither Client Loyalty? Are you certain that your clients will follow you where'er you roam? According to new research by Spectrem Group, clients may not be as steadfast as Mary's little lamb. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 Matt Oechsli |
Appearances Matter Wealthy clients weigh a lot of factors when choosing a financial advisor --- cost of services is one of them, but it is far from the most important. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 John J. Bowen |
Living Dangerously In today's hazardous world, affluent clients are looking to financial advisors for help in protecting more than their financial assets. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr. |
Strategies for 2012 and Beyond In these volatile times, you have an excellent opportunity to build relationships with high-net-worth investors who are actively looking for advisor alternatives. With that firmly in mind, here are some key strategies and tactics that will make a big difference over the next year and beyond. |
Registered Rep. May 5, 2011 Matt Oechsli |
Build Trust, Win Affluent Clients, Become a Rainmaker Much is required of today's financial advisors in order to earn a recommendation. |
Financial Advisor April 2007 Grove & Prince |
Tune In To America's Core Wealthy Small business owners represent that greatest potential for growth and wealth in America. Historically, they have been a lucrative and complex client for financial advisors and will remain so. |
Investment Advisor April 2010 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: The Challenges of Advising the Affluent Advisors need to focus on more than just assets with their very wealthy clients. |
Registered Rep. March 22, 2013 Matt Oechsli |
What Women Want When Shopping for an Advisor Affluent women are now more involved in major purchase decisions than ever before. Here's what they're looking for in an advisor. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2010 John J. Bowen, Jr. |
Wow Right Now Starting now, you need to delight your clients if you want to keep their business and maintain their loyalty going forward. |
Financial Advisor January 2004 Grove & Prince |
Wealth Management And Advanced Planning Advanced planning is an essential part of the wealth management model, because it can result in more revenue and a deeper understanding of the affluent client |
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Suzanne McGee |
Higher and Higher Today, there are more than 9 million Americans with at least $1 million to invest. Even for the best-prepared and best-educated advisor, a time may come when they need to consider whether continuing to work with their ultra-affluent client is in the best interests of both parties. |
Registered Rep. March 15, 2012 Matt Oechsli |
The Affluent Relationship Shift (2nd Macro Shift) How important do you think it is for support personnel to be involved in helping manage the business and social components of client relationships? |
Registered Rep. February 1, 2006 Russ Alan Prince |
Rep's Honor Here is how wealth management readily translates into additional assets under management for financial advisers and what they can do reach this target market. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2009 John J. Bowen Jr. |
Success on Purpose The right practice framework is essential to reaching success in the financial advisory industry, and the most important aspects of this framework fit into seven categories. |
Registered Rep. April 12, 2012 Boswell & Nichols |
Advisor-Client Communications Agreements We've found that affluent clients leave advisors far more frequently for poor service than for poor financial advice. |
Registered Rep. November 3, 2010 Diana Britton |
Merrill Lynch: Affluent Investors Remain Conservative Despite Positive Outlook According to the latest Merrill Lynch Affluent Insights Quarterly, 39 percent of affluent Americans described themselves as having a low investment risk tolerance. |
Financial Advisor August 2006 Hannah Shaw Grove |
Life Insurance And Wealth Management Helping client with life insurance is an important service of effective wealth managers. |
Financial Advisor January 2007 Tere D'Amato |
Faux Financial Planning If you aren't indispensable to clients, in the end a life insurance agent may fill the void. As a financial advisor, you should resolve to do all you can in 2007 to ensure that your clients understand the pivotal role you play in their financial life. |
Investment Advisor January 2007 Susan L. Hirshman |
Making a Statement While any advisor can help determine basic financial goals, the mission statement offers a creative and innovative way for affluent families to not only manage their wealth but also create a structure of stewardship for that wealth for their future generations. |