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Investment Advisor November 2009 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: The M Word Cometh Older and younger advisors both have a new appreciation for marketing.
Investment Advisor October 2010 Angela Herbers	Show Yourself the Money Advisors need to learn to pay themselves first
Investment Advisor April 2008 Angela Herbers	Opportunity Knocks The bear market can lead to great growth for advisors, or a big nightmare.
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.
Investment Advisor February 2009 Angela Herbers	Advisor, Heal Thyself Good advice to advisors these days is that they revise their own financial plans.
Investment Advisor June 2010 Angela Herbers	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.
Investment Advisor August 2007 Angela Herbers	Dream Teams Successful advisory firms make room for solid performers as well as superstars. As a manager of human resources, firm owners need to understand that their personal definition of success is not going to be everyone's definition.
Investment Advisor March 2010 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: Blue Chips Overly corporate firms aren't keeping young advisors happy.
Investment Advisor February 1, 2011 Angie Herbers	The Why Factor: Explaining the Revenue-Employee Motivation Link What makes a tremendous difference in employees' future performance and contribution to an advisory firm is making sure they really want the job.
Investment Advisor April 2009 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: When Bad Things Happen to Good Advisors If the current recession has a silver lining, it's that the advisory industry will be forced to take the next step in its evolution.
Investment Advisor June 2008 Angela Herbers	Blue Chips A once in a lifetime opportunity exists for advisors to attract professional talent in a down market.
Investment Advisor January 2009 Angela Herbers	First Aid Kit The vast majority of advisor practices aren't well positioned to withstand these challenging markets.
Investment Advisor March 1, 2011 Angie Herbers	A Star is Made When advisors hire "stars," they expect them to "hit the ground running," but the best employees aren't hired; they are created in-house.
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. 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 May 1, 2011 Bogan & Doss	Harnessing Human Capital As much as we believe in the relevance of compensation research, our own experience has led us to the conclusion that compensation is but one component of successful human capital programs at financial advisory firms.
Investment Advisor October 2008 Angela Herbers	Know Thyself NexGen advisors often wonder how much they should get paid. To get a fair offer, first they need to accurately determine what they're worth.
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.
Investment Advisor November 2007 Bob Clark	Today's the Day A growing shortage of professional talent coupled with low retention rates and virtually non-existent partnership tracks is adversely impacting the independent advisory industry.
Investment Advisor May 2008 Angela Herbers	Stepping Up Difficult economic times like these require advisors to address the concerns of their staffs.
Registered Rep. February 14, 2012 Anne Field	The Art of Writing A Check When Jon Yankee and his two partners started their Reston, VA-based firm six years ago, they wanted to do it right. Among other things, that meant putting in place a clearly-thought-out compensation plan for both advisors and staff.
Investment Advisor December 2009 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: Figures Don't Lie Finding the compensation benchmarks you need may take work.
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.
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 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.
Financial Planning September 1, 2011 Bogan & Doss	Instinct or Intention? You need to hire, train and manage team members, both advisors and staff, to drive a firm's success and profitability.
Investment Advisor January 2007 Bob Clark	The Trust Threat Financial advisors need to rethink adding trust services to their offerings.
Investment Advisor May 1, 2011 Angie Herbers	The Fruits of Passion Creating passionate employees is one of the keys to building a great advisory firm
Investment Advisor October 2006 Bob Clark	Swimming With The Sharks Read the fine print before selling your financial advisory firm to a strategic buyer.
Investment Advisor June 1, 2011 Angie Herbers	Who's Responsible? Creating a culture that gives employees ownership of their jobs solves myriad problems.
Financial Advisor November 2003 Blomfield & Hamil	Who Puts Clients First? Client-centered financial advisors have an edge over ones focused on investments.
Investment Advisor October 2007 Mark Tibergien	Exit, Stage Left There comes that awful realization in every advisor's life when he finds himself in the netherworld between wisdom and obsolescence. As the leader of the business, how do you know when it's time to step aside?
Investment Advisor February 2008 Angela Herbers	Barring the Door How to stop training your (future) competition.
Investment Advisor March 2010 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: What's a Young Advisor to Do? There is evidence that young advisors feel stymied in their efforts to acquire interests in their firms.
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 David Lawrence	A View From Both Sides To successfully retire, financial advisors have to carefully plan and develop a clear direction before taking action.
Investment Advisor March 2009 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: Collective Amnesia Why do advisory practices fail? Not only do they refuse to position their firms for times that might not be so good, they seem to go out of their way to overexpose and overextend their practices so that the slightest downturn becomes a challenge.
Financial Planning February 1, 2010 Stephanie Bogan	Make 2010 Your Best year Ever Quantuvis Consulting's new study of business performance has strategies for every advisor, regardless of size, business model, or philosophy.
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 June 2009 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: Letting Go Success comes from helping advisors determine what they and their firms do best, and then custom-building a practice to maximize those skills.
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.
Investment Advisor June 2006 Bob Clark	Clark at Large: Reality Check A good exercise is to periodically examine the things we know to be true and explore why we think so. Here's a list of possible misconceptions financial advisors hold to be true: Client portfolios need international exposure... It doesn't matter what the other advisors do... etc.
Investment Advisor May 2010 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: A Marriage of Inconvenience A spouse in a practice almost always results in more problems than it solves.
Investment Advisor February 2010 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: Bonus Babies It's time to once again take a more serious approach to advisor bonus compensation.
Entrepreneur June 2009 Asheesh Advani	Put Your Advisory Board to Work It's time to rethink the roll of advisors and how they are compensated.
Investment Advisor October 2010 Maya Ivanova	A Decade of Evolution Advisory practices make gains, but still face challenges
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