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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.
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.
Financial Advisor April 2008 Grove & Prince	Jump On The Bandwagon How will the growing number of middle-class millionaires affect the financial planning industry, and provide advisors with a possible key to enhanced growth and profitability.
Investment Advisor April 2008 Bob Clark	No More Mr. Nice Guy It appears independent advisors may be changing, and not necessarily for the better.
Financial Advisor March 2012 Bernie Clark	The Changing Affluent Investor Advisors must prepare for new affluent clients and the changes, attitudes and expectations they will bring with them.
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 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 John J. Bowen	Women of Wealth Financial advisors can use their knowledge of affluent women to create a unique value proposition, and put themselves in a tremendous position to serve a group that's been too long ignored -- and capture more business than ever before.
Financial Advisor December 2003 Grove & Prince	The Financial Life Of Senior Executives Who do America's top executives favor as their primary financial advisor and how did they find that advisor?
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.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 Grove & Prince	Staying Connected If financial advisors need yet another reminder about the importance of contacting clients, here it is: In our study of affluent investors conducted in late October, almost half of the respondents said they had changed primary advisors in the last year, often citing lack of contact.
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Rediscovering Your Clients Think you know your clients inside and out? Chances are, you don't, and the gap between what you think your clients care about and what is actually on their minds could be costing you plenty.
Financial Advisor February 2004 Grove & Prince	Learning More About Clients With the Whole Client Model How to find out what you need to know about a financial planning client.
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 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.
Financial Planning September 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr.	How to Reach Million-Dollar Clients To move your practice onward and upward, you may need to reconfigure the way you do business. Here s how.
Investment Advisor May 2007 Lewis Schiff	Are You Ready for Advanced Planning? Wealthy clients want a trusted advisor who can help them address a multitude of financial concerns. Here is how to move beyond average.
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 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.
Bank Technology News September 2002 Elizabeth Logue	Wealth management: Advisors Finally Waking Up to the Internet's Useful Influence Bucking the market once again, Charles Schwab is doing the unthinkable: encouraging financial advisors to use the Internet to service affluent customers.
Financial Planning October 1, 2008 John J Bowen Jr	Wealth Transfer It's important for financial advisors to understand the profound effects that inherited money has on inheritors when developing a strategy to work with them.
Financial Advisor November 2003 Grove & Prince	Products America's Senior Executives Use And Want The wealthier they are, the more they want financial products designed for them.
Investment Advisor April 2008 Lewis Schiff	Like Client, Like Advisor New research reveals the personality traits and practices that help advisors become millionaires themselves.
Financial Advisor April 2007 Grove & Prince	Tune In To America's Core Wealthy Small business owners represent that greatest potential for growth and wealth in America. Historically, they have been a lucrative and complex client for financial advisors and will remain so.
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.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2004 Matt Oechsli	The Myth of Reluctance There are four important facts for advisors who struggle to get new client introductions from their current affluent clients.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2006 Russ Alan Prince	Rep's Honor Here is how wealth management readily translates into additional assets under management for financial advisers and what they can do reach this target market.
Financial Advisor March 2006 Grove & Prince	The Secrets Of Million-Dollar Producers Here is how the role client loyalty plays in both the sustainability of the client/advisor relationship through difficult market conditions and poor performance and the client's willingness to provide more assets and referrals to the advisor.
Investment Advisor March 2010 Lewis Schiff	The Affluentialist: What Do Counselors Think About Clients? Advisors to wealthy families speak out about clients and careers.
Financial Planning December 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Strategies for 2012 and Beyond In these volatile times, you have an excellent opportunity to build relationships with high-net-worth investors who are actively looking for advisor alternatives. With that firmly in mind, here are some key strategies and tactics that will make a big difference over the next year and beyond.
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. June 1, 2006 Kristen French	The Wealth Management Quest Are you really a wealth manager? Do you know what the phrase really means? It pays to know, because a new compensation report shows only 8% of advisors -- across all business channels -- actually fit the bill.
Financial Advisor November 2005 Grove & Prince	A Dangerous Disconnect Many advisors don't understand what their wealthy clients want -- or need. By being able to deal with the planning concerns of the affluent by brining in the proper experts, the financial advisor will end up growing his or her business.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2013 Matt Oechsli	Are You an Elite Advisor? The Oechsli Institute recently conducted its annual advisor survey to discover just that. The research shows what today's affluent clients expect from a financial advisor and what advisors are doing to meet these expectations.
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Suzanne McGee	Higher and Higher Today, there are more than 9 million Americans with at least $1 million to invest. Even for the best-prepared and best-educated advisor, a time may come when they need to consider whether continuing to work with their ultra-affluent client is in the best interests of both parties.
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.
Investment Advisor May 2008	Whither Client Loyalty? Are you certain that your clients will follow you where'er you roam? According to new research by Spectrem Group, clients may not be as steadfast as Mary's little lamb.
Financial Advisor March 2004 Grove & Prince	Thinking And Acting Like A Wealth Manager It's the difference between offering products and providing solutions.
Financial Advisor October 2007 Mark Fadiman	Nurturing Growth How CEG Worldwide helped wealth management evolve from buzzword to industry discipline.
Registered Rep. August 27, 2014 Matt Oechsli	Seven Phrases Advisors Should Never Use Nobody likes to be sold to, especially today's affluent. Yet many people still try to sell their products and services to this lucrative consumer niche, including financial advisors.
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 February 2005 Grove & Prince	Why This Business Is So Tough The first in a series of articles about the risks, rewards and challenges of being a wealth manager, as well as the ever-changing tools of the trade.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2005 Shaw Grove & Alan Prince	Does Branding Still Matter? Are today's high-net-worth clients attracted or, at best, ambivalent, to big name financial services firms?
Financial Planning May 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz	Client Loyalty The most common reason affluent investors leave their financial advisors is because their advisor does not answer their calls, according to a new report.
Registered Rep. July 23, 2003 Nigel Goodman	Servicing Your HNWs A recent Fidelity Investments survey shows that affluent clients will still replace their advisors if they are not meeting portfolio goals. Predictably, the survey encourages advisors to become more attentive to the needs of their affluent clients.
Registered Rep. May 5, 2011 Matt Oechsli	Build Trust, Win Affluent Clients, Become a Rainmaker Much is required of today's financial advisors in order to earn a recommendation.
Registered Rep. September 30, 2014 David Armstrong	Editor's Letter: October 2014 The wealth inequality gap is not between rich and poor, it's between the high-net-worth households and everyone else, including the middle class, who have not seen a significant increase in their middling net worth in over a decade.
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.
Trusts & Estates May 2002	Think Like A Shrink Understanding Today's High Net Worth... Advisors Should Make a Diagnosis, Then Think About Product... Recognizing the Role of the Family Founder... Understanding the Cultures, Values and Beliefs of the Family... etc.
Financial Advisor April 2005 Grove & Prince	The Wealth Management Mindset Learning to manage solutions for unique clients: This is the third and last article in a series about the risks, rewards and challenges of wealth management.