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Investment Advisor October 2006 Chris Blunt |
Advancing the Conversation Advisors' role in helping clients and heirs address end-of-life issues -- Behind the Numbers: 72% of parents said they would encourage their own financial advisor to discuss... etc. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Advisor Pulse Many parents are woefully underprepared to fund their children's college expenses, and advisors are well positioned to give them the nudge they need. |
Financial Advisor July 2011 Somnath Basu |
Will The Economy Double-Dip? Other than the stock market, most indicators reflect a trough, not the early stages of a growth cycle. Here's what advisors should watch for. |
Registered Rep. April 20, 2010 Kristen French |
Merrill Won't Seek Growth Through Top Tier Advisor Hires Merrill Lynch plans to grow primarily by investing in current advisors and hiring rookies, said Merrill Lynch president of Global Wealth and Investment Management Sallie Krawcheck on Tuesday. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Marshall Eckblad |
Advisor Pulse According to a recent survey, financial planners may be missing a golden opportunity to establish advisory relationships with their clients' children. |
On Wall Street December 1, 2010 Matthew Leung |
Winning Over Clients Who Have Been Burned It's not surprising that investors and even financial advisors may be disheartened about the market. So how can advisors remain motivated and prevent clients from sitting on the sidelines? |
Financial Planning September 1, 2011 Suzanne McGee |
Full-Nest Syndrome Even when a financial advisor is able and willing to work with clients on containing and managing requests for financial help from their boomerang children, they can end up squarely in the middle of one of the most perilous kinds of disagreements: family squabbles over money. |
Investment Advisor November 2006 Chris Blunt |
Advisors: Natural Facilitators Generations welcome advisors' help in tackling wealth transfer talks. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2008 Robert Hoyt |
The New Normal Clients (as well as practitioners) are hoping to understand what their investment lives will look like when the economy settles down. How will we know when things are back to normal? And what will that normal be? |
Financial Advisor October 2005 David J. Drucker |
The Parent Care Solution Smart financial advisors have spent at least a little time thinking about ways to keep their clients from straying. They've also thought about protecting their clients from the ravages of old age. Now these seemingly unconnected demands have a common link. |
Registered Rep. August 24, 2011 Jerry Gleeson |
Fidelity: 529 plans not an advisor priority Assets in college-targeted 529 savings plans are growing at double-digit rates, but financial advisors appear to be on the sidelines when it comes to working with clients on the product. |
Financial Advisor September 2004 Evan Simonoff |
Editor's Note Just as it's a mark of the U.S. economy's strength that we recovered from the biggest bubble in history with only a mild recession, it's a mark of our resilience and adaptability that we've adjusted to a world where the threat of terrorism is a part of our daily lives. |
On Wall Street November 1, 2008 Alden Cass |
Age Before Beauty: Experience Helps in Tough Markets If you are confident and unbending in tough times, your clients will respect you. |
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. April 1, 2005 Kevin McKinley |
Passing Grades for 529s When qualified college savings accounts burst on the scene in the late 1990s, the initial growth exceeded most expectations. At the same time, small tickets, bigger regulatory burdens and a go-go stock market are diminishing the interest of some advisors. |
Registered Rep. November 7, 2011 Kristen French |
Krawcheck: Client Attrition Very Low, but Wooing Younger Generation a Challenge Generation x and y kids are not too keen on the big wealth management firms, and that is one of the major challenges the wealth management industry faces over the medium term. |
Financial Advisor December 2004 Gregory Bresiger |
Your Next Client May be a Child Financial relationships that took an advisor years to build can be quickly ruined by a young person's recklessness with money. That's why it is often critical for advisors to know the children of their clients. |
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 June 2010 Roy Diliberto |
The Savings Myth Advisors need to give balanced advice, and for many clients that means encouraging them to enjoy their lives today. |
Investment Advisor April 2009 Angela Herbers |
The Fast Track: When Bad Things Happen to Good Advisors If the current recession has a silver lining, it's that the advisory industry will be forced to take the next step in its evolution. |
Financial Advisor January 2009 Rebecca Pomering |
Turning Turbulence Into Growth Turmoil is creating big opportunities. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2012 Denise Federer |
The Legacy Advisor The ultimate goal of a being a legacy advisor is to guide your clients to identify the emotional concerns that transcend the financial facts and could potentially impede family relationships. |
On Wall Street April 1, 2013 Lorie Konish |
Five Questions with Matt Matrisian The director of practice management at Genworth Financial offers advisors tips on avoiding common blind spots. |
Investment Advisor August 2007 James J. Green |
Get Over It Competition for clients, and for young advisors, will mushroom in the years ahead. Good marketing will not only drive more business your way, it may very well drive more good advisors your way as well. |
Investment Advisor August 2010 Savita Iyer-Ahrestani |
Retirement Planning: Serving Gen Y Now Advice for advisors on branding, service, and capturing Gen Y -- and its assets -- now. |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Joni Youngwirth |
When To Prune One can find good reasons to cut clients and good reasons not to. Advisors who do are typically happy they took action. |
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2005 Anthony Downs |
Dissecting the Housing Bubble Question The most widely discussed real estate issue in the United States today boils down to a two-part question: Does a housing bubble in America exist? And if so, will it burst? |
On Wall Street May 1, 2013 Lorie Konish |
Younger Clients Need More Direct Contact from Advisors Twenty- and thirty-somethings take investing cues from their parents, and advisors need to reach them by phone or have face-to-face contact, according to a survey. |
Investment Advisor March 2010 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: What Do Counselors Think About Clients? Advisors to wealthy families speak out about clients and careers. |
On Wall Street November 1, 2009 Parisi & Leung |
Intergenerational Wealth Transfer: The New Advisor Challenge A new survey estimates that 80% to 90% of financial advisors lose assets when their client dies -- mainly because the advisor doesn't know the client's children or heirs. |
Registered Rep. November 25, 2009 Philip Palaveev |
The Top 10 Financial Mistakes Advisors Make Personal financial issues occur in every channel of the industry and affect advisors of every size of practice -- from the owners of very large wealth management firms to small independent practitioners. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2007 Kevin McKinley |
Financing Tomorrow Here's why and how you should use your skills to foster money harmony between generations, and ensure a position as the family's primary financial advisor today and tomorrow. |
Registered Rep. December 8, 2010 Philip Palaveev |
The Cobblers Kids If the cobbler's kids run around barefoot, the financial advisor's kids may be a little nervous about their college funds right now. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2010 Paul Menchaca |
Who's Wealthy Now? During today's sluggish recovery from a deep economic recession, the simple fact is that fewer americans, even the rich ones, are immune to financial stress. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Stephanie Bogan |
Building Value It seems clear that anticipated growth from baby boomers, an aging advisor population, and increasing interest in mergers and acquisitions will likely make building and realizing value the defining practice managment issue of the next decade. |
Financial Advisor September 2009 Evan Simonoff |
Editor's Note The editor of this publication speaks about how the nation's recent pains can be advisors' gains. |
On Wall Street August 1, 2013 Kris Frieswick |
Editor's Letter: Finding Gains Across the Pond A run-down of the stories in this issue, which focuses on global strategy and taking advantage of emerging markets. |
Investment Advisor May 2010 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Raising Responsible Children Advisors to wealthy families can offer sensitivity and guidance. |
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 Planning June 1, 2010 Gregory Salsbury |
A New Conversation The market meltdown forced people to start thinking more seriously about retirement. But they're still held back by misconceptions. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 Angela Herbers |
Advisor, Heal Thyself Good advice to advisors these days is that they revise their own financial plans. |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2011 Jerry Gleeson |
Getting the Boot Often after the inheritance of an estate advisors mishandle their relationship with the heirs, focusing on the clients at hand and neglecting the next generation. |
Investment Advisor October 2007 Kara P. Stapleton |
The Kids Stay in the Picture Think of your financial advisory clients' children now, and they're likely to think of you later. |
Investment Advisor May 2009 Angela Herbers |
The Fast Track: Coming of Age Independent financial advice is a unique field in the fact that workload tends to go up just when cash flow goes down. |
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. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2010 |
Five Questions With Gurinder Ahluwalia The President/CEO of Genworth Financial Wealth Management talks about his company's goals and services. |
Financial Advisor April 2009 Steven Leshner |
Basic Training Revisited One of our roles as advisors is to show our clients that there's a parallel between fiscal and physical fitness. |
Financial Advisor February 2012 Evan Simonoff |
A Warning For Advisors On the eve of the worst financial crisis in 80 years back in 2006, what were the seers at our nation's central bank doing? |
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. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Jennifer M. DeLong |
The New College Try A college degree is invaluable, but it is worth more if it doesn't come with a debt load that burdens students and parents for years. College savings must take its rightful place as part of an integrated financial planning approach. |