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Financial Planning October 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Listen Deep At the heart of successful client relationships is your ability to understand clients on a meaningful level.
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.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Grove & Prince	Elusive Loyalty It's a serious conundrum for financial advisors: Their success hinges on their ability to cultivate loyalty in their most affluent clients, but many are having a tough time building that loyalty. But financial advisors can learn the skills that promote client loyalty.
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. 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.
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 January 1, 2009 John J Bowen Jr	Interesting Times This interesting financial environment offers unparalleled opportunities for advisors to grow their businesses and come out of the current mess stronger than ever.
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 Planning November 1, 2010 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Wow Right Now Starting now, you need to delight your clients if you want to keep their business and maintain their loyalty going forward.
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.
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 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.
Financial Planning January 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr.	How to Increase Client Satisfaction It s not about your skills, it turns out - other factors are more important in maintaining happiness and loyalty.
Financial Advisor August 2004 Grove & Prince	U.S. Small Business Owners: Product Use and Interest For financial advisors sizing them up as clients or prospects, they are excellent candidates. But their complex needs and family situations require unique solutions.
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.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2005	So Whose Fault Is That? In a survey of nearly 800 affluent investors by PNC Advisors, about half worry their children will grow up feeling entitled.
Financial Planning April 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Listen Up! Want to build great long-term relationships with clients, professional partners and centers of influence in your market niche? Here's a secret: Do a lot less talking and lot more listening.
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 John J Bowen Jr	Wide-Angle Lens Too many advisors focus almost exclusively on their clients' investments and ignore a number of other important areas.
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 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 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.
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.
Registered Rep. March 15, 2012 Matt Oechsli	The Affluent Relationship Shift (2nd Macro Shift) How important do you think it is for support personnel to be involved in helping manage the business and social components of client relationships?
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 John J Bowen Jr	Help From My Friends Here are some of the most important issues to consider when working with a financial institution.
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.
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.
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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 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.
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.
Registered Rep. October 14, 2013 Matt Oechsli	Mastering the Personal Introduction An important point to remember is that by asking for an introduction, you are helping your client help you by identifying a specific person you'd like to meet.
Financial Planning January 5, 2008 John J. Bowen Jr.	Better Than Average Making a New Year's resolution to improve your practice? A new survey lets you benchmark your performance against the broader advisory community.
Financial Planning February 1, 2008 John J. Bowen Jr.	The Wow Factor Never underestimate the role that client service plays in your advisory business.
Financial Planning March 1, 2012 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Multiple Personality Syndrome The advisors who are most successful in finding, attracting and keeping affluent clients are those who get to know all different types and then build their service around specific subgroups.
Financial Planning August 1, 2009 John J. Bowen Jr.	Expert Positioning You must position yourself so that the clients you want to target see you as a true expert who can address their full range of problems, issues and opportunities.
Investment Advisor April 2008 Lewis Schiff	Like Client, Like Advisor New research reveals the personality traits and practices that help advisors become millionaires themselves.
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 March 2010 Ray Sclafani	The High Performance Coach: Building, and Restoring, Trust A coaching session on how the best advisors build trust with new -- and existing -- 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.
Registered Rep. March 22, 2013 Matt Oechsli	What Women Want When Shopping for an Advisor Affluent women are now more involved in major purchase decisions than ever before. Here's what they're looking for in an advisor.
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Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Matt Oechsli	A Recipe for Failure Somewhere, somehow, some high-net-worth advisors are making serious, but easily remedied, missteps. Are you one of them?
Financial Advisor June 2008 Grove & Prince	Survival Of The Fittest Whatever plateau your advisory business may have reached, whatever ceiling you might have bumped up against -- now is the time to blast off or blast through.
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.
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.
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