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Registered Rep. September 1, 2004 David A. Gaffen	Clean Machines Not all of these Top 50 Advisors have spotless records, but their ability to build such huge practices speaks to how astute they are in avoiding the sorts of complaints that can bring an advisory to its knees.
Investment Advisor April 2006 Maya Ivanova	Self Improvement In the recent supplement to the 2005 Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking Survey, many advisors recognize that simply maintaining the status quo is not enough. They're continuously examining their business plans and investment processes to look for improvements.
Financial Planning October 30, 2006 Drucker & Bruckenstein	Practice Management International Bahrain-based financial advisory firm The Family Office grapples with growth as it serves wealthy families in the Middle East.
Investment Advisor April 2007 Lewis Schiff	The Wealth Boom Americans are on the brink of a wealth boom that may dramatically change the financial advisory business. The challenge is to understand these wealth boomers and decide how to profit from them.
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 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.
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 January 2009 Rebecca Pomering	Turning Turbulence Into Growth Turmoil is creating big opportunities.
On Wall Street June 1, 2011	The Leaders Speak The most influential leaders in wealth management today expound on evolution, revolution, moving the debate past wirehouse versus independent, and more.
Financial Advisor April 2004 Grove & Prince	Creating A Wealth Management Team Team members are competitive, but that shouldn't hurt their service.
Investment Advisor October 2005 Melanie Waddell	The Playing Field: Welcome to the Family Becoming a wealth manager is not quite as easy as it looks. But the mid-tier millionaires are underserved, so honing skills and capturing some of them as clients should be on every financial adviser's list.
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Suzanne McGee	The Perfect Alternative Is there an asset class for your clients portfolios whose price moves in the opposite direction to that of mainstream investments like stocks and bonds?
Financial Planning March 1, 2008 John J Bowen	Getting an Edge For many financial advisors, the choice to offer wealth management services isn't easy. They wonder if wealth management is really worth it. The answer is yes.
Investment Advisor October 2007 Neal Ringquist	Tech Tools There are a number of reoccurring concerns that rank high among the challenges that today's financial services institutions and advisory firms are looking to address. A software company president discusses how to solve those niggling problems stunting your growth.
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.
Investment Advisor October 2008 Maya Ivanova	War Room How the most successful advisory firms are mitigating risk on two fronts: for their clients, and for their own businesses.
Financial Advisor July 2006 Dorothy Hinchcliff	Climbing A Stairway To Heaven As boomers age and spend their savings, financial advisors will need to adapt their practices.
Investment Advisor August 2005 Melanie Waddell	The Playing Field: Serving Mid-Tier Millionaires Mid-tier millionaires desperately want to reduce the complexity of managing their wealth and consolidate all of their financial needs under one roof. Can you help them?
Investment Advisor October 2009 Waddell & Keane	Wealth Matters Advisors like Myra Salzer are not standing pat in helping clients with their estate and tax planning, despite uncertainty over the administration's plans. Here's how your peers are taking action now.
Financial Advisor July 2006 Grove & Prince	Accountants As Wealth Managers Accountants offering wealth management can be double-edged swords -- simultaneously delivering tremendous opportunities and thorny challenges to the firms and professionals they work with each and every day.
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.
On Wall Street June 1, 2011 Carl Resnick	ETFs: The Ideal Asset Allocation Tool? True diversification has become the primary focus of smart advisors. To the benefit of these advisors and their clients, a wide range of well-built exchange-traded funds has emerged to represent just about every asset class available.
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 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 August 2008 Melanie Waddell	Time for an Alternative The volatile market is sparking more use of alternative assets
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.
Investment Advisor September 2006 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: Bust of Boom? Financial advisors need to adjust their practices as baby boomer clients age.
Investment Advisor August 2006 Susan L. Hirshman	The Wealth Advisor: Lessons From the Best With a targeted client plan consisting of an integrated approach for client segmentation, actively pursuing referrals, and furthering meaningful client contact, financial advisors will be on their way to meeting their clients' financial needs.
Financial Advisor August 2008 Ken Ziesenheim	The Real Thing Investment returns need to be evaluated after taxes, expenses and inflation -- but few do that.
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.
Financial Advisor November 2006 Grove & Prince	Wealth Protection For The Affluent Here are the things wealth managers must know to keep their wealthy clients feeling secure.
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.
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.
Investment Advisor July 2006 Robert F. Keane	Getting It All Done While for many advisors taking the wealth management route is a no-brainer, it's not without potential pitfalls. Wealth management covers much more than just how much money the client has.
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 John J. Bowen Jr.	Getting the Right Help Financial services firms aren't doing enough to support the transition to wealth management.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 Matt Oechsli	The Present Wave Is the Next Wave Industry changes in the past two years have produced a number of subtle trends that will shape your world as an advisor, for good or bad.
Registered Rep. July 1, 2011 Jerry Gleeson	Selling Alpha? BAD MOVE. Talon Asset Management announces it is selling about two-thirds of its business to global investment manager BNY Mellon.
Registered Rep. October 17, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	The Odd Couple: Advisors and Accountants Mergers between advisors and accountants are often seen as marriages of mutual interest, but don't kid yourself. Industry experts say there's a Mars-and-Venus quality to the partnerships that makes success difficult.
Investment Advisor April 2008 Bob Clark	No More Mr. Nice Guy It appears independent advisors may be changing, and not necessarily for the better.
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Financial Advisor March 2004 Grove & Prince	Thinking And Acting Like A Wealth Manager It's the difference between offering products and providing solutions.
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?
Financial Planning February 1, 2007 John J. Bowen	Network Basics Financial planners should assemble a team of three core experts to meet the needs of their wealthy clients.
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 January 1, 2007 John J. Bowen	It's a Coalition Effort Wealth management works -- that is, if everyone at your financial advisory firm works to make it happen.
Financial Advisor November 2008 Ken Ziesenheim	The Probability Of Real, Real Returns Financial advisors should be evaluating clients' investment returns after taxes, expenses, and inflation to get a real picture of what their portfolios have earned.
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.
Investment Advisor October 2009 Jeff Joseph	Venture Populist: The Private Venture Test RIAs that possess the requisite mandate, means, and mindset should embrace private venture investments -- for the benefit of both their clients' portfolios and their practices.
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.