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Investment Advisor September 2005 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: The Price of Everything... If you're not adding profit into what each financial advisory client costs, you're losing money. Advisors who use a combination of performance fees tied to assets and a retainer tied to more complex planning are able to consistently demonstrate their value.
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 29, 2005 John Churchill	Are You Charging Enough? With competition fierce -- and clients more informed than ever -- it's important to make sure that you are not selling yourself short. In fact, you may not be charging enough for your financial advisory services.
Investment Advisor August 2007 Maya Ivanova	A Victim of Success? A recent survey of registered investment advisors reports that while advisors recognize that marketing is a key component of their business, few devote enough time to this vital activity.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2006 Dan Caplinger	Avoid the Boiler Room Some financial advisors know more about sales than they do about investing. Finding good financial advice is tough. Investors with little or no knowledge about their finances are extremely vulnerable to disreputable professionals.
Financial Advisor August 2009 Roy Diliberto	Transparency: A Model For Our Profession Investment advisers should only have one interest in mind, and that is the individual.
Financial Advisor February 2007 David J. Drucker	The Retirement Dilemma Will your aging client base kill your financial advisory business?
Financial Planning July 1, 2013 Patrick Sweeny	How to Talk About Your Fees Clients deserve straight answers on the ways they pay for your services.
The Motley Fool June 20, 2007 Dan Caplinger	The $12 Billion Problem It's time to stop a hidden fund fee. No one is arguing that financial professionals don't deserve to get paid for their work. But there are big problems with using 12b-1 fees to do it.
The Motley Fool August 13, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Don't Pay Twice for Advice There's nothing inherently wrong with paying for financial advice. But there's a big difference between paying once for a good financial plan versus paying high fees year after year, through good times and bad.
Financial Planning October 1, 2011 Donna Mitchell	Knowing Their Worth Many advisors are squeamish about taking anything other than a flat percentage fee for assets under management.
Financial Advisor February 2004 Sydney LeBlanc	Stature, Service, Size, Simplicity Schwab, Fidelity and Waterhouse are building sophisticated SMA (separately managed account) platforms.
Financial Advisor November 2012 Jerilyn Klein Bier	No More Secrets New 401(k) fee disclosure rules could generate big opportunities for advisors.
Financial Advisor November 2006 Tracey Longo	Is The Price Right? When it comes to pricing, many financial advisors are nowhere near as efficient and profitable as they could be.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Compensation Survey 2015: Crunching the Numbers The industry has come a long way in embracing a fee-based business.
Registered Rep. October 10, 2014 Megan Leonhardt	Half of HNW NextGen Investors Keep Parents' Advisors About half of high-net-worth millennials are likely to keep their family's financial advisor when they inherit.
Financial Advisor July 2008 Rebecca Pomering	When Is The Price Right? To answer the question -- how much, or equally important, in what way should an advisor be charging -- one has to understand a number of things about an advisor's practice.
Financial Advisor November 2008 Gail Liberman	War Breaks Out For Wirehouse Brokers The economic crisis on Wall Street, among many other things, is causing wirehouse brokers to reconsider the value proposition offered by the giant financial service firms.
On Wall Street July 1, 2010 Frances A. McMorris	Confusion Reigns Among Wirehouse Advisors On The Fiduciary Issue With all the frenzy over the call for a universal fiduciary standard for all financial and investment advisors, it appears that those in the wirehouses don't really understand the debate.
Registered Rep. December 4, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	Don't Fear Your Fees RIAs are loathe to increase rates, believing it alienates clients. But industry insiders say advisors have more juice than they suspect. Here's how to get a raise.
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 James E. Warren Jr.	Beyond the Payout Eight critical points that every financial advisor contemplating a change of affiliation should consider.
Registered Rep. June 4, 2012 Lauren Barack	The Fishbowl Effect As financial advisor ratings websites like BrightScope and Advice IQ proliferate, advisors are going to have to get comfortable with having their records a click away from clients and prospects.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2010 Halah Touryalai	Citi's Covert Makeover It's a major shift in business for an entire unit to leap in the fee-only RIA world.
Financial Planning February 1, 2010 Marion Asnes	One Fee to Bind Them In 2009, broker-dealer Capital Analysts introduced a new flat-fee business model. So how's it going?
Registered Rep. June 30, 2010 Christina Mucciolo	Clients, though Mostly Satisfied, in the Dark about FA Fees, Says Study Overall advisors and investors are still confused about what the advisors' fiduciary responsibility is exactly.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 John Churchill	You're Worth So Much More Clients might not agree, but there's rising evidence that advisors are not charging enough for their services.
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 J. Scott Slater	On Beyond AUM More advisors should look to drive additional revenue from charging separate fees for value-added services.
Financial Planning March 1, 2008 Bob Veres	Deconstructing Rand A report written by the Rand Corp. will help the SEC's staff decide who should and should not be registered as an registered investment advisor, and to determine whether investors understand the differences between and relationships among broker-dealers and investment advisors.
Registered Rep. July 5, 2011 Jerry Gleeson	When Advisors Add Value, Pricing Power Follows Advisors who want to charge more for their services have to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
Financial Advisor May 2005 Raymond Fazzi	Betwixt And Between Hybrid advisors work in both the fee-based and commission worlds.
Financial Advisor October 2004 Sydney LeBlanc	Your SMA Business Primer Start here to learn how to open separately managed accounts (SMAs) for your clients.
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Financial Advisor March 2012 David Lawrence	Consolidation Quickens Advisors are increasingly turning to others to increase service and decrease costs.
Investment Advisor September 2007 Kathleen M. McBride	A Trend Confirmed? Advisory fees overtake commission revenue at Commonwealth. So what does this mean for the independent broker/dealer industry? Will other firms soon reach the point at which fee revenue dominates?
Investment Advisor June 2008 Philip Palaveev	The New Model: The Fee-Only Broker/Dealer Independent broker/dealers must tackle head-on the causes of their frustration if they wish to survive.
Registered Rep. June 3, 2010 Kristen French	For Fiduciaries, Fee Monitoring Gets More Scrutiny Advisors who act as fiduciaries have to keep a closer watch over fees and expenses than ever before.
Financial Advisor April 2007 David Lawrence	RIM Shot Service pricing is not the sole issue for today's financial advisors to deal with. There are several issues unique to Retirement Income Management practices that require attention.
Registered Rep. September 10, 2009 David A. Geracioti	Fido's RIA Unit Cuts Fees The average financial advisor has taken a big hit in production and therefore net income. But RIA custodians are turning that into something of a marketing tool.
Financial Advisor July 2009 Sherri Scordo	Compliance Concerns There's a lot of buzz these days about potential changes in compliance rules and the impact on advisors.
On Wall Street October 1, 2008 Danny Sarch	Seven Reasons Why Advisors Move A firm that's hemorrhaging money isn't the only reason advisors leave. Company polices and management attitudes also play a part.
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Philip Palaveev	Be Careful What You Wish For Understanding the advisor and independent broker-dealer relationship.
Registered Rep. September 16, 2011 Jerry Gleeson	RIA Interest in Financial Planning Grows, Industry Data Suggests Financial planning activities are playing a growing role in the service offerings of registered investment advisors.
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.
Investment Advisor August 2010 Melanie Waddell	Advice to the SEC When it comes to the fiduciary standard, Capital Analysts President and CEO Matt Lynch says advisors "want to be sure the SEC seeks and gathers input from the industry as to how to implement these important changes."
Investment Advisor September 2008 Robert F. Keane	Far From Retired Tony Purpero thought he was headed into retirement when he returned to southern California, but instead finds himself working harder than ever to help other current and future retirees.
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Registered Rep. August 24, 2011 Charles Paikert	Family Businesses Offer Opportunities -- and Pitfalls -- for Wealth Managers Advisors have to be more aware of the interplay between a family's personal portfolio and its business.
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