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Financial Advisor May 2004 David J. Drucker |
No Longer An Ancillary Service If your clients are middle-aged or older, learn about old-age care options. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2005 Janet Aschkenasy |
Eldercare Grows Up For your oldest clients -- and their children -- financial planning takes on new dimensions. |
Investment Advisor March 2008 Maya Ivanova |
The Right Match To meet the needs of aging clients, advisors need to be educated and responsive. |
Financial Advisor September 2007 Bruce W. Fraser |
Role Reversal What financial advisors can do to prepare their clients to care for elderly parents. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Martin Shenkman |
Caring for Your Client When clients are elderly or chronically ill, including a care manager on the team can provide considerable expertise and benefit both a client and the family. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2008 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Your Network of Experts Forging ties across disciplines can improve your client service and give your practice an edge over the competition. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2013 Samantha Allen |
Longer Lives, Higher Costs: Is Your Firm Ready? As boomer clients head into their 70s and beyond, advisors must become geriatric specialists to handle a complex set of new demands. |
Financial Advisor March 2012 |
So You Think You're A Financial Planner? A recent study from industry research firm Cerulli Associates looked at advisors across all channels and compared how they describe themselves with how they actually do business. |
Investment Advisor March 2006 Angela Herbers |
The Fast Track: Glory Days Financial planners need to decide whether they want stardom or the benefits of a growing firm. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn |
2010: The Skills You'll Need How you communicate will matter more than what you know in the future for financial planners. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2013 Scott Wenger |
Editor's Note: Teaming Up for Small Business As entrepreneurial clients build their businesses, advisors should bring in specialists to maximize the value |
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Marshall Eckblad |
The Retirement Puzzle Serving retirees might be a lot less profitable than most financial planners imagine. There are certainly opportunities in catering to this wealthy crowd, but only if you know where to look. |
On Wall Street November 1, 2010 Gallant & Schneider |
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. |
Registered Rep. April 15, 2009 Kristen French |
Bank of America Launches Client Referral Program It's one of several referral programs the bank is putting together as part of its integration with Merrill Lynch, including one that would offer leads from the commercial banking division to certain Merrill Lynch advisors. |
Financial Advisor November 2010 Ben Mattlin |
Compensating Caregivers Advisors discuss how families can provide at-home care for a loved one -- and defuse sibling rivalries that often result. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2012 Dave Grant |
To Grow, Think Small Niche marketing, by design, focuses on a small segment of the market. By choosing a smaller group to serve, you can become a specialist serving the needs of this population. |
Investment Advisor June 2007 Steven T. Merkel |
Today's Wealth Manager Just like anyone can call themselves a "financial planner," any firm can represent themselves as being "wealth management" caliber. So how can you distinguish yourself among all the competition? |
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. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2011 Martin Shenkman |
Come Together Estate planning is a critical part of the planning process and ideally should be a group effort, involving attorneys and accountants as well as planners. But where does a financial planner fit on the team? |
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Donna Mitchell |
Staffing: The Next Generation Early in the life cycle of a financial planning firm, once it grows beyond a few seasoned principals, comes the day you hire your first new young associate planner. It's an important step for your firm, and for the profession. |
Financial Advisor August 2012 Ben Mattlin |
Pearls Of Wisdom The five most important things advisors have learned about running a successful practice. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Ann Brenoff |
The Personal Touch In 2009, Cathy Morrison left her job of 23 years as senior vice president of the High Net Worth Group at Roxbury Capital Management and opened her own firm to fill what she saw as a need in the industry-helping clients deal with all the financial services companies in their lives. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2008 Schroeder et al. |
Long-Term Care Redefined As clients live longer, they increasingly need forms of assistance that aren't adequately covered by long-term-care insurance, and the cost of such assistance could easily torpedo the best-laid retirement and estate plans. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2010 Mary Quist-Newins |
An Abundance of Caution The financial services industry sometimes gives women a bad rap when it comes to their investment attitudes and behaviors. They are often seen as risk avoidant and even indecisive in their approach to investing. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Bob Veres |
What's Next for Planners When we cast our gaze forward at the changes taking place in the financial planning profession, a lot of new variables creep into the formula: the rapid evolution of technology, demographic and societal changes, plus wild cards like the recent Great Recession and financial reform legislation. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2009 Donna Mitchell |
Earnings Rebound Financial advisors are making more money, putting more emphasis on education, and shifting their compensation schemes toward fees |
Financial Planning August 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad |
Advisor Pulse If a new survey is to be believed, advisors who help their clients with retirement planning -- and that's most of you -- will soon face a difficult choice: Change the way you service clients or watch your profits shrink. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2007 Kathy Gevlin |
How Is Your Business? Having survived bubbles, busts and bouts of irrational market behavior, the best financial planners are now feeling very rationally exuberant. |
Investment Advisor November 2007 Kara P. Stapleton |
Conversation Obligation Involving the client in retirement planning helps grow advisors' business. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2013 Scott Wenger |
FPA's Michael Branham: Succession on His Mind The FPA s president says advisors of all ages should be thinking about the next chapter of their careers. |
Investment Advisor October 2009 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Beyond the Numbers The more intricate the financial and personal lives of clients, the more likely clients will ask for non-financial advice. |
Financial Advisor June 2004 Gregory Bresiger |
Advisors Are Living Dangerously Professionals continue to grapple with the question of errors and omissions insurance coverage. They believe that it is unnecessary. These uninsured advisors, one insurance executive says, run in the thousands. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2012 Bob Veres |
Defining 'Real' Planning: Who Are The Real Financial Planners? If you re not doing the hard work of developing detailed plans for your clients, maybe you need a new job description. |
Investment Advisor November 2006 Bob Clark |
Name Game Advisors who want to benefit from the more favorable economics of working with fewer -- but higher net worth -- clients will increasingly need to position themselves as investment managers or wealth managers. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2008 Marion Asnes |
Medical Miracles The editor of this publication discusses the importance of preparing your clients healthcare needs. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2012 |
Women Advisors Forum/Boston: Sharing Strategies Women planners are changing the face of the financial services industry. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2008 David E. Adler |
Your Retiring Clients' Biggest Fear How to pay for healthcare is the single biggest concern that people have approaching retirement. It's important for planners to understand this as well; not only for clients, but for themselves. |
The Motley Fool November 27, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Financial Planning Ethics With the increasing complexity of the financial world, it's increasingly important to find professionals you can trust. By choosing a financial planner who is governed by strict ethical principles and guidelines, you can feel more confident that you will get the advice and assistance you deserve. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2007 Suzanne McGee |
High Net Worth: Affluent Medicine If your financial advisory clients haven't discussed concierge healthcare with you yet, they may well do so very soon. Here's what you need to know. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2006 Elizabeth O'Brien |
The Thing You Can't Ignore (Anymore) Seven industry experts discuss the topic of financial advisory practice management. Success breeds competition, and the advisors who come out ahead will know how to run their practices like businesses. |
Job Journal February 20, 2005 Julia Hollister |
Financial Planning: Careers that Pay Dividends Expert financial planners keep their wise clients healthy and wealthy. Includes recommended websites on careers in finance. |
Investment Advisor November 2006 Angela Herbers |
Operation Ownership One of the major failings of the independent advisory industry has been the reluctance of advisors with established practices to extend ownership to junior professionals who helped them attain their success. |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Ben Mattlin |
Eldercare: Sense And Sensibility Handling the heated emotions of planning for the aging. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2008 Jim Grote |
Anticipating Needs Rutherford Asset Planning already caters to the financial needs of the elderly. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2012 Ann Marsh |
Realms Of Influence: Financial Planning's Influencer Awards to Six Outstanding Advisors Financial Planning's annual Influencer Awards honor six individuals whose contributions are pushing the field to new heights. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2010 David E. Adler |
Impulse is Bliss The capacity to make decisions, including financial decisions, changes dramatically over the life cycle. Advisors should understand and use this. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 Joan Warner |
Life Planning Goes Mainstream Will baby boomers respond best to asset allocation models that are served up with a dash of soul-searching? Some of the biggest firms are betting on it. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2006 Marshall Eckblad |
Advisor Pulse Financial planners are working hard to meet the needs of their retiring clients. But according to a recent survey, they might be doing so at their own expense. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2010 Marc Freedman |
Word Games The public wants to hire financial planners who can visibly showcase an ongoing commitment to their words and promises. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2013 Katie Kuehner-Hebert |
Quitting Your Job? Create an Exit Strategy Advisors considering a change of venue need a game plan and a clear sense of who owns their client relationships. |