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Registered Rep. December 13, 2011 Charles Paikert	What Advisors Should Know About the Small Business Owner Market The good news: 50 percent of small business owners could use an advisor, and the best prospects, according to the survey, are women, younger owners, and owners who are thinking about retiring.
Financial Planning July 1, 2007 Kathy Gevlin	White Paper The study points out a number of attitude and behavior changes among surveyed high-net-worth individuals. For the first time in the survey's six-year history, with regard to investing, wealthy individuals care as much about return on assets as they do about preservation of assets.
Investment Advisor July 2007 Melanie Waddell	Gen Xers: The Optimal Client? The best new clients for financial advisors may be high-net-worth Gen Xers, but the trick will be luring these young millionaires away from the banks.
Investment Advisor July 2008 Kara P. Stapleton	Lone Investors Many affluent individuals still haven't grasped the benefits of having professional advisors.
On Wall Street April 1, 2013 Donald Jay Korn	Ultra-Wealthy Wary of Trusting a Single Advisor While ultra-wealthy individuals tend to put their trust in wealth managers, the bad news is most tend to use multiple advisors.
Registered Rep. July 21, 2006 Kristen French	Advisors Not Filling High-Net-Worth Retirement Needs, Survey Says Although few high-net-worth investors are prepared for the kind of retirement they expect, advisors continue to focus on wealth accumulation at the expense of long-term financial planning.
Financial Planning February 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz	White Paper The Phoenix Companies and Harris Interactive recently conducted a survey of high-net-worth women. Here is a summary of their findings.
Financial Advisor February 2012	Sex Bias "The financial services industry needs to do a better job of recruiting, training and retaining women as financial advisors if it is going to successfully meet the demand of women small business owners," said Mary Quist-Newins.
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 Planning November 1, 2006 Marshall Eckblad	Advisor Pulse Financial planners are working hard to meet the needs of their retiring clients. But according to a recent survey, they might be doing so at their own expense.
Investment Advisor February 2009 Kara P. Stapleton	Who's Investing Where? A new report for advisors finds nearly half of U.S. households own equities or bonds, a significant increase during the last two decades, however, ownership of these assets has declined since 2001.
Registered Rep. May 25, 2005 John Churchill	Millions to Choose From Advisors gunning for millionaire clients now have more prospects to choose from -- and a blueprint for what they're looking for -- according to a new survey which says that 1.3 million new American households became millionaires in 2004.
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. July 1, 2006 Kristen French	Trading Up The Wealth Advisor Institute, a new trade group for advisors who cater to the wealthy, opened its doors in June.
Financial Planning January 1, 2009 Stacy Schultz	Manage My Wealth Most affluent individuals do not like the term "wealth management," a new study by SpectremGroup reveals.
Financial Planning March 1, 2005 Paramjit Mahli	Adviser Pulse For financial planners to maintain and build strong relationships with ultra-high-net-worth investors, investment performance is crucial.
On Wall Street November 1, 2011 Elizabeth Wine	The Unfaithful Client Cheating on a financial advisor is a known, but frowned-upon client practice. But new research says that it has been gaining traction among high-net-worth households since the market turmoil began in 2008, with many clients bolstering their stable of advisors.
Registered Rep. July 9, 2014 Diana Britton	It's a Seller's Market If you don't already have plans to sell your practice, now's a good time to consider it.
Registered Rep. July 9, 2003 Nigel Goodman	The "Potential" Play in the HNW Game The pursuit of high-net-worth clients is a tough road. An increasing number of financial advisors are trying to land well-to-do clients before they attain high-net-worth status.
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien	Do the Rich Enrich? Advisors chase high-net-worth clients, but some skeptics remain.
On Wall Street November 1, 2011 Michelle Lodge	Five Questions With Patrick Kennedy So-called sympathy pricing, or discounting, of transactional trades runs rampant in the full-service brokerage industry, says Patrick Kennedy, co-founder and VP, product and technology, for the intelligence-solutions firm PriceMetrix.
Registered Rep. September 18, 2014 Megan Leonhardt	Increased Trust Drives HNW Investors' Increased Risk As the markets provide room to run, wealthy investors' trust and confidence in their wealth managers and firms is on the rise -- as well as their appetite for growth-based investing.
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.
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. May 1, 2005	13 Percent Percentage of advisors who say they have switched to a wealth management model.
Financial Planning April 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr.	5 Success Tips From High-Performing Advisors A new study of high-earning advisors offers 5 clear success tips.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2004 Will Leitch	The Advisor as Traffic Cop As high-net-worth investors spread their assets around more liberally, they are finding themselves in need of a traffic cop -- a central advisor who can sit in the middle of all the financial activity and make sense of it all.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 David A. Geracioti	You Say, They Say In an industry survey that covered a range of issues, from estate planning to choice of investment products, the responses by wealthy clients and advisors showed a striking disconnect about the needs of high-net-worth individuals.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2002 Walter H. Zultowski	Who Wants a Wealth Manager? Are potential clients excited about the prospect of receiving wealth management services? And of those who are, what characteristics do they share? Phoenix, which specializes in this market, set out to answer these questions in a survey of the high-net-worth population.
Financial Advisor June 2012 Karen DeMasters	Succession Survival Guide Advisors plan for their clients' futures but often ignore their own.
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.
Financial Advisor November 2005 David J. Drucker	Chasing The Wrong Clients? Some think that financial advisors are after the wrong group of wealthy clients.
Investment Advisor July 2010 Ray Sclafani	The High-Performance Coach: The Five Myths of Professional Networks Why you need professional advocates.
Financial Advisor July 2006 Dorothy Hinchcliff	Climbing A Stairway To Heaven As boomers age and spend their savings, financial advisors will need to adapt their practices.
Investment Advisor July 2009 James J. Green	Numerology: Wealthy Remain Wary The wealthy are even more risk-averse than advisors might have thought.
Registered Rep. August 25, 2010 Halah Touryalai	Better Economic Times Ahead? Your Clients Don't Think So. Advisors seem more optimistic about the economy than their own clients, according to a recent survey.
Registered Rep. May 6, 2007 Christina Mucciolo	More Millionaires Investing on Their Own, Study Says There are a lot of millionaires in the United States. More than ever, in fact, according to recent research. But are they turning to financial advisors for help? Well, yes, and no.
Investment Advisor April 2010 Lewis Schiff	Advisor, Understand Thyself Financial advisors need to understand themselves and their inner drivers, as well as their clients'.
Investment Advisor May 2007 Kara P. Stapleton	What Millionaires Value According to Fidelity Registered Investment Advisor Group's recently released survey, financial advisors play a critical role in helping millionaires meet their investment needs, but 30% of those wealthy surveyed do not currently use an advisor.
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.
On Wall Street October 1, 2010	Letters Most people think that health care reform will solve many of the problems facing retirees and people about to retire. Nothing could be further from the truth. Financial advisors need to be prepared to talk about health care costs.
Investment Advisor March 2009 Melanie Waddell	Cover Story: Patience In the quest to generate retirement income for their clients, many advisors relied on their investing-for-accumulation roots, and therefore were not focused on retirement income planning.
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.
Financial Advisor January 2009 Rebecca Pomering	Turning Turbulence Into Growth Turmoil is creating big opportunities.
Registered Rep. August 1, 2005 Matt Barthel	RIAs in Flux The pioneering ways of registered investment advisors (RIAs) are coming back to bite them. Once on the cutting edge of "holistic" financial planning and fee-based client relationships, RIAs are now just one of a pack of firms offering such services.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Grove & Prince	Theory to Practice For many advisors, the evolution to wealth manager remains a matter of theory, not practice. Sure, they're calling themselves wealth managers, but they're still behaving like financial advisors.
Financial Advisor October 2010 Michael Patrick Jacobs	Investors Demand More This advisor provides highlights of what he's found clients today are looking for when they seek advice.
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Marshall Eckblad	The Retirement Puzzle Serving retirees might be a lot less profitable than most financial planners imagine. There are certainly opportunities in catering to this wealthy crowd, but only if you know where to look.
On Wall Street September 1, 2009 Gerri Leder	When Trust Is Broken, Value Is Compromised Make no mistake: Many clients' trust in their advisors has been shaken. This is the time for advisors to re-establish the value they offer.
Financial Advisor October 2005 Grove & Prince	Understanding The Middle-Class Millionaire Middle-class millionaires are the "ideal clients" for most financial advisors. They are wealthy enough to require the services of high-quality financial advisors, yet not so wealthy that most financial advisors end up in over their heads.