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Investment Advisor October 2008 Angela Herbers	One Small (Big) Step The advisory industry has taken a giant leap forward in the past year. Attendees at this year's FPA NexGen conference clearly have made progress at getting small pieces of equity in their firms.
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Financial Planning January 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell	Articulate Your Value A majority of financial advisory clients have been very satisfied with the performance of their providers since the onset of the financial crisis and market meltdown, but almost 10% of clients are neutral or dissatisfied.
Inc. May 2007 Jennifer Gill	Smart Questions: How to Vet a Board Member There's a lot of talk these days about the lack of independent directors on corporate boards. But it's not just a big-company issue. There should be at least one outsider on your board, too. Here's what to ask to get the right person in the chair.
Investment Advisor April 2010 Ray Sclafani	Demystifying Referrals To build a client acquisition system, break the process down into nuggets.
Investment Advisor July 2010 Ray Sclafani	The High-Performance Coach: The Five Myths of Professional Networks Why you need professional advocates.
Investment Advisor October 2010 Angela Herbers	Show Yourself the Money Advisors need to learn to pay themselves first
Financial Advisor March 2012 Juliette Fairley	Advisors Take Fund Research Into Their Own Hands Last year, the ARGI Financial Group, a Louisville, Ky.-based advisory firm with $400 million in assets under management, decided to take a new approach to researching mutual fund companies -- go directly to the source for information.
Investment Advisor November 2009 Angela Herbers	Marketing Is Everyone's Job Following are ideas for advisors to incorporate into their strategic marketing initiatives.
Investment Advisor March 2010 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: Blue Chips Overly corporate firms aren't keeping young advisors happy.
Financial Advisor March 2012	Wirehouses Still King Of The Hill Despite headlines about breakaway brokers and the ascendency of the independent, fee-based advisory model, the Big Four wirehouses are still holding their own.
Registered Rep. November 21, 2014 Anne Field	Plug And Play? Matthew Westhoff and his partners have a successful practice and want to expand it by letting other advisors plug into their operation. How can they structure a competitive contract and attract qualified candidates?
Registered Rep. October 28, 2015	Live Oak Bank: Open Access Lending "The aging demographic of the investment advisory industry is severely under-financed. Live Oak Bank saw this as an opportunity to address an underserved need," said managing director Jason Carroll.
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Investment Advisor March 2010 Angela Herbers	How to Poach Talent from Larger Firms The institutionalization of larger advisory firms gives smaller firms a tremendous recruiting advantage -- and opportunity.
Registered Rep. May 31, 2013 Megan Leonhardt	Cold Call: Michael Kitces Michael Kitces, Research Director of Pinnacle Advisory Group talks about business plans for advisors.
Investment Advisor September 2010 Ray Sclafani	The High-Performance Coach: Ten Ways to Engage Clients Now, Part 1 How top advisors are re-engaging with clients at a tenuous time.
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz	More Than Equal A study of the role of the female financial advisor. The research compares female to male advisors and looks at the varying performance levels of women advisors.
Investment Advisor October 2005 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: How Bleak is Your Future? Whether the latest Hurley/JPMorgan treatise on the financial advisory profession is right is hard to know, but their assumptions are compelling enough for advisors to take stock of their own situations.
Registered Rep. September 30, 2009 David A. Geracioti	Do Retail Financial Advisors Have an "Unhealthy Focus?" The Financial Times suggests the way financial products and services are sold need to be completely overhauled.
Investment Advisor October 2010 Mark Tibergien	Friends in Need? You can use outside investors to help finance your advisory firm growth plans.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Mark Tibergien	The Bounty for Captain and Crew Does ownership of an advisory firm pay enough when rewards for employees are so high?
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Kevin Barr	Integration Ardor With careful analysis and discipline, financial advisors can take advantage of a host of technologies to make their businesses run more smoothly. And until that silver bullet appears, caveat emptor.
On Wall Street April 1, 2013 Lorie Konish	Five Questions with Matt Matrisian The director of practice management at Genworth Financial offers advisors tips on avoiding common blind spots.
IndustryWeek November 17, 2010	Board Member Today; CEO Tomorrow The number of Fortune 1000 directors who became the CEOs of the companies on whose boards they served more than doubled in the past year.
On Wall Street March 1, 2013 Rachel F. Elson	Hiring the Next Generation A combination of the right recruitment, development and technology spells success for advisor firms.
Investment Advisor September 2009 Philip Palaveev	Tortoise or Hare Which business model is most acceptable to investors? And which to advisors?
Investment Advisor January 2007 Bob Clark	The Trust Threat Financial advisors need to rethink adding trust services to their offerings.
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Financial Planning September 1, 2008 John J Bowen Jr	Time to Say Goodbye Today's most successful advisors recognize a simple but powerful fact of business: It's better to work with a small number of great clients than to serve a huge base of clients who are only mediocre.
Financial Planning October 1, 2012	Women Advisors Forum/Boston: Upgrade Your Practice If you're a woman with an advisory career - either at an RIA, a wirehouse, a regional brokerage or a bank - this forum is your opportunity to rub elbows with other high-ranking women advisors.
Investment Advisor December 2005 Bob Clark	Why Bigger is Better This compensation and staffing study offers a preview of how financial advisory firms will be different five or 10 years from now.
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Kathy Gevlin	Advisor Pulse The happiest financial advisors really do put their clients first, asserts the first study of advisor satisfaction.
IEEE Spectrum November 2011 Robert W. Lucky	The Advice Business Sometimes it seems the advisors get more out it than the advisees
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Investment Advisor July 2006 Maya Ivanova	Power of the People With the proper guidance, training, and nurturing, your employees can expand your firm's presence, networking opportunities, and pool of referrals and help you grow your financial advisory firm.
Financial Advisor April 2007 William Glasgall	Why Marketing Works Over the years, many advisors, being analytical people at heart, have relegated marketing to a minor role behind crunching numbers for clients' financial plans and investment portfolios. Now, that attitude seems to be undergoing a long-needed change.
Investment Advisor December 2007 Angela Herbers	Bottom Up Broker/dealer recruiting is largely a zero sum game. Here is why it more advantageous for B/Ds to help their existing advisors.
Registered Rep. September 14, 2005 John Churchill	H&R Block On a Recruiting Spree The firm known primarily for its tax preparation services is ramping up its financial advisory force.
Investment Advisor November 2009 James J. Green	Numerology: Fewer Assets, More Advisors Total assets managed by investment advisors shrank in 2008 but the number of SEC-registered investment advisors increased.
On Wall Street September 1, 2010 Howard J. Stock	Talent Shortage Grips Firms As Financial Advisors Age After years of recruiting only established, top advisors in the so-called "war for talent" instead of hiring younger employees and training them, the industry is now facing a shortage.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2012 Kristen French	Due Diligence: "Fee-Based" is a Four Letter Word for Financial Advisor Clients Do you use the term "fee-based" with clients and prospects? If so, well, don't.
Investment Advisor August 2008 Angela Herbers	Hop Off the Bus, Gus The number one problem faced by most advisory firms these days is employee turnover, resulting from poor hiring and poor management.
Investment Advisor January 2008 Bob Clark	Part of the Solution For financial advisors, a fund you run yourself (with help) can solve some thorny issues.
Financial Advisor October 2007	Editor's Note Success spawns its own challenges, and now the biggest problem confronting the advisory business is the availability and supply of labor.
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