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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. |
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Financial Planning's Software Survey 2008 Better technology can reap rewards for advisors.. Read on for the results of the Financial Planning Software Survey. |
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Tech Survey From iPads to Androids to cloud providers, technology evolves oh-so-fast, and FP's annual tech survey reveals that advisor technology usage is changing rapidly too. |
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Technology Survey 2010 With the renewed interest and investment in advisor technology, we expect to see further gains next year. It is a slow process, but as an industry we are becoming more technologically proficient. |
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Advisor Emporium Pershing assists advisors going independent... New advisors receive technology assistance... FPA offers best practices tools... Direxion enters ETF market... Foliodynamix joins communications gateway... Scottrade adds portfolio director... |
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Efficiency: Hitting the Tech Target Some advisors are still balking at portfolio rebalancing tools and automated workflow technology that could make their practice more profitable. |
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Navigating The Retirement Business The demand for retirement income support will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years as the aging of the baby boom generation is inevitable. |
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The Three Es Here are three ways to create an Efficient, Effective & Expedient financial advisory firm. |
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The Technology Coach: Time to Upgrade Your PC's OS? Whether or not to upgrade to a new operating system is a question that businesses have not had to answer for quite some time. |
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What's Next for Technology This is a time of creativity and evolution in technology, and advisor technology is no exception. As a result, RIA firms can make changes to their infrastructure and in the process create new efficiencies while actually lowering operating costs. |
Investment Advisor
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Stressed Out? It's no news that advisors are overwhelmed, considering the behavior of the markets and the state of the economy. |
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The Fast Track: American Standard Comp tables based on surveys of advisory firms won't help you find the right salary range for your firm if those firms are over- or underpaying. |
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Tech Tools There are a number of reoccurring concerns that rank high among the challenges that today's financial services institutions and advisory firms are looking to address. A software company president discusses how to solve those niggling problems stunting your growth. |
Financial Advisor
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The Need For Simplicity How to prepare reports efficiently while keeping them understandable for clients. First in a two-part article on retirement issues for advisors. |
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Bob Veres |
A Profession Comes Of Age As the planning profession reaches maturity, motive and opportunity seem to be conspiring to create a better professional world. |
Financial Advisor
February 2, 2009
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Surviving The Plunge Amid falling assets and revenue, advisors try to positions themselves for the eventual upturn. |
Investment Advisor
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Bob Clark |
Clark at Large: Declaration of Independence Starting with fiduciary duty, I propose standards for a new profession. |
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Options, Options, Options Big banks used to be the main acquirers of advisory firms, but in the past few years, the consolidators and bigger advisors have recognized the opportunity as well. |
Investment Advisor
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Give Them What They Want Understanding they can't offer every tool to every advisor, custodians are nevertheless making sure to remain flexible enough to meet advisors' ever changing demands. |
Financial Advisor
January 2009
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Wealth Of Knowledge Find the answers you and your advisory staff need to be successful in a virtual world at the T3 conference. |
Financial Advisor
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Key Role Custodians are upping their technology offerings to RIAs. |
Financial Planning
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Joel Bruckenstein |
Custodian as Consultant TD Ameritrade's Solutions Consulting Group helps advisors make use of TD's technology -- while running their practices more effectively. |
Financial Advisor
August 2006
Raymond Fazzi |
Custodians Duel Over New Services Competition in the fee-based advisory field and the pressure to grow assets and operations is not only forcing changes upon advisors, but also the custodians who serve them. |
Financial Advisor
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Bernie Clark |
The Changing RIA Advisors need to start thinking bigger and go beyond their current capabilities. |
Financial Planning
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Gwen Moran |
Morale Support As good advisors are in high demand, it is more important than ever for firms to attract and retain advisory talent to bring in and serve new clients. |
Financial Advisor
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Sydney LeBlanc |
More Options, More Business Independent advisors recently got the opportunity of a lifetime -- the marriage made between fee-based advisory accounts and fiduciary accountability finally made headlines in the SEC repeal of Rule 202. |
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Frontline News Advisor news: Is Your Client's Private Info Secure?... Hybrid Brokerages Shine Light On New Space... CFP Aspirants Need A Plan... Wanted: Silver Bullet For Retirement Income... more... |
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Maya Ivanova |
A Decade of Evolution Advisory practices make gains, but still face challenges |
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Joni Youngwirth |
Who Is Your Firm's CFO? Advisory firms need to better manage their financial risks. |
Investment Advisor
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Maya Ivanova |
War Room How the most successful advisory firms are mitigating risk on two fronts: for their clients, and for their own businesses. |
Financial Advisor
January 2006
Tracey Longo |
Working Smarter, Not Harder As more independent broker-dealers set themselves up as strategic outsourcing partners, they are finding bigger and better firms driven to their door by stagnant or shrinking profit margins and the accelerating compliance melee. |
Financial Advisor
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Bruce W. Fraser |
Rebuilding Trust - Part 2 Six leaders in the wealth management continue their discussion of the advisory industry and how new rules and regulations will impact it. |
Investment Advisor
February 2010
Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Trends in Client Communication The pressure for greater efficiency and convenience is propelling advisors to try new means of communication. Not surprisingly, most new channels appear with new technologies or updated applications of old techniques. |
Financial Advisor
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Bernie Clark |
Gunning For Growth RIA firms estimate that they'll see 15% revenue growth this year. An emphasis on efficiency will free principals to go after new business again. |
Registered Rep.
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Financial Advisors Must Prepare For Coming Retirement Advice Boom As Baby Boomers retire, and switch gears from asset accumulation to asset distribution, advisors are going to have to become more sophisticated and efficient in their delivery of financial advice |
Financial Advisor
July 2011 |
Frontline News Advisors Using Fewer Asset Managers... The New CFPs... Avoid The Analyst Herd... etc. |
Investment Advisor
February 2009
Angela Herbers |
Advisor, Heal Thyself Good advice to advisors these days is that they revise their own financial plans. |
Financial Advisor
May 2010
David J. Drucker |
Help From Your Friends More advisors are signing on to advisor networks to fast-track their businesses. |
Financial Advisor
May 2012
David Lawrence |
Missed Opportunity Most advisors under utilize the technology offered by their broker-dealer or custodian. Why? |
Financial Planning
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Elson et al. |
Hot Topics Rosy outlook for advisory firms... Changes coming for ce credit... Retirement sweet spot... |
Registered Rep.
December 4, 2012
Megan Leonhardt |
(No) Experience Necessary When it comes to being a financial advisor, the more experience -- the more years you have on you -- the better, right? Not quite. A new study shows that firms should be cautious when bringing aboard advisors heavy on experience. |
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
February 2008
Joel Bruckenstein |
Custodians Beef It Up Since advisors' work flows are often intertwined with custodian-supplied technologies, let's take a look at what the custodial firms have in store for 2008. |
Registered Rep.
July 14, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Financial Advisor Switching Firms Jumps in June June was a busy month for financial advisors on the move. The number of advisors switching firms jumped 45 percent in June versus May, according to Discovery Database. |
