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Financial Advisor October 2011 Roy Diliberto |
Rules Of Dumb Some advisors use rules that dumb down our profession. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr. |
Consultation, Not Just Advice Financial advisors offer advice, of course, but they'd be much better off if they thought of themselves as consultants. |
Financial Advisor October 2008 Roy Diliberto |
The Dynamic Process Of Monitoring Goals It is our job -- no it is our obligation -- as planners to help our clients achieve their goals and dreams. That may involve changing our portfolios and the way we report results. |
Financial Advisor February 2010 Roy Diliberto |
Basic Truths These truths for financial life planners form the foundation of their integrity. |
Investment Advisor August 2009 Angela Herbers |
Danger & Opportunity: Manual Labor This month's case study illustrates why comprehensively documenting a firm's practices and procedures is more than just a boring, nerdy waste of time: it's the key to building an efficient advisory practice. |
Investment Advisor June 2009 Mike Patton |
Temperament & Tools To do the job right, the fiduciary financial planner needs the right temperament, and the right tools. Here's how one advisor does it. |
Financial Advisor December 2006 Roy Diliberto |
A Dentist's Formula For Success Knowing what financial advisory clients value most in life provides advisors the information to guide them in the right direction. |
Investment Advisor January 2006 Andrew Gluck |
The Gluck Report: Financial Planning's Future Financial planning software is better than ever. Here's a look at what the big four are up to: Financeware... Profiles+Professional... MoneyGuidePro... NaviPlan Extended... |
Financial Advisor January 2007 Tere D'Amato |
Faux Financial Planning If you aren't indispensable to clients, in the end a life insurance agent may fill the void. As a financial advisor, you should resolve to do all you can in 2007 to ensure that your clients understand the pivotal role you play in their financial life. |
Financial Advisor October 2012 Roy Diliberto |
Cash Flow In Retirement Clients take a different view than advisors. |
Financial Advisor July 2011 Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Market In The Middle OMYEN uses a couple of key tools to try and help financial advisors serve less-affluent clients. |
Financial Advisor February 2, 2009 Roy Diliberto |
Building A Reservoir Of Good Will For Bad Times A benefit of caring is client loyalty and retention. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2006 Michael B. Horwitz |
Tell Them More Potential financial planning clients are asking questions, but are they the right ones? If prospects wanted to go beyond the standard questions and our stock replies, what would they ask to get a real inside look at our businesses? Here are some possible questions. |
Financial Advisor February 2005 Diliberto & Anthony |
The Death March Of Numbers Just as we wouldn't commence a financial advisory client interview with, "How are you and how much do you have?" neither should we progress into numbers gathering until the proper emotional context has been established for the work we will do. |
Financial Advisor May 2011 Jennifer M. Wolfsberg |
A Lesson From Jerry Maguire With the tumultuous market conditions over the last decade, how do advisors rebuild their business financially? More importantly, how do we rebuild and strengthen client relationships? |
Financial Advisor May 2008 Kurt J. Rossi |
Great Expectations Advisors must be cognizant of the fact that tuning into the emotional needs of clients is the key to helping them remain on the track to realizing their goals and dreams. |
Investment Advisor November 2009 Olivia Mellan |
Cover Story: Reassessing Risk Clients who are too conservative need to be educated that they have only traded investment risk for inflation risk. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2007 Li et al. |
Meeting the Need Your clients need your help managing their retirement income. This three-stage process offers you a practical framework to serve them well. |
Financial Advisor April 2007 Roy Diliberto |
Safe Withdrawal Rates--The Magic Bullet? Financial advisors should focus on what clients need to support their lifestyles. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Britt & Grable |
Risky Business Since many financial advisors tend to think their interview skills and experience are all they need to judge clients' risk tolerance, few are inclined to use formal assessment tools. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 Angela Herbers |
Advisor, Heal Thyself Good advice to advisors these days is that they revise their own financial plans. |
Investment Advisor October 2007 Lauren Barack |
The Longevity Race People are living longer. Software makers are helping advisors figure out how to make clients' portfolios last longer, too. |
Financial Advisor September 2010 Carty & Carty |
Both Sides Of The Ledger Barra co-founder Andrew Rudd is helping advisors build portfolios that balance client resources against future claims. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2006 Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Move on Down the Road Retirement Road Map, one of the first asset distribution programs, takes a simple approach to a complex subject. With a few tweaks, it could become a truly useful tool for financial planners as well. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn |
The Magic Number Determining how much wealth is enough to support retirement combines the art of managing expectations with the science of crunching numbers. |
Investment Advisor September 2007 |
Bloomsday Here's why Mike Patton's newfound independent financial advisory practice is showing definite signs of life. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2005 Bryce Sanders |
The Disgruntled Client How financial planners can know if they're about to lose a valued client relationship -- and what to do about it. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2006 Cal Brown |
Legacy Planning Clients want to pass on more than money to their heirs. Once legacy planning is complete, there are many benefits for clients, their children and the planner. |
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. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 Anne Field |
Shining a Light on Client Dreams Call it financial planning with a therapeutic edge -- life planners help clients save for non-traditional and sometimes deeply personal goals. Life planning could be the ultimate in value-added financial advisory service. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2006 Gresham & Gresham |
The Rewards of Risk Review One thing that everyone should agree on is the need to take a good hard look at the risks a financial advisor can help clients deal with financially, from the risk of having to pay damages in a lawsuit to the risk of outliving their resources. |
Financial Advisor September 2005 William H. Overgard |
The Cornerstone Of The Business Any successful financial adviser knows that trust is what drives the relationship with the investor and ultimately the success of the fee-based advisory business. |
Financial Advisor August 2012 Roy Diliberto |
Labels Matter Financial planning will never be understood if those who practice it don't call themselves financial planners. |
Financial Advisor June 2005 Roy Diliberto & Mitch Anthony |
A Practice You Can Live With Don't let your financial advisory business become your master. |
Financial Advisor May 2010 Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Getting Risk Right More retirement planning programs now consider "fat tails." |
Financial Planning April 1, 2005 Jeffrey H. Rattiner |
Dig Deep to Climb High To stay competitive, financial planners need to increase their technical know-how. |
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. |
Investment Advisor February 2008 James J. Green |
Visionary George Kinder, financial planner and Buddhist teacher, discusses how life planning and financial planning can come together, fostering a client's economic and spiritual well-being. |
Investment Advisor November 2005 Bob Clark |
Clark at Large: Boom Time If you're like most financial advisors, your baby boomer clients will pose a significant challenge in the years to come, both in the way you manage client portfolios and your practice. |
Financial Advisor November 2005 Roy Diliberto |
The Naked Emperor Revisited When clients are promised consistently superior, above-market returns by their financial advisors, are these promises as shallow and invisible as the clothes "weaved" by the tailors in the Hans Christian Anderson fable? |
Financial Advisor August 2010 Roy Diliberto |
An Elusive Profession Work still needs to be done so that clients, regulators and the media view and understand us for what we -- financial planners -- are. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2008 Huxley & Burns |
The Match Makers Advisors can use asset dedication to match client's cash flows to their liabilities. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn |
The Evolving Practice Financial planning covers so many different strokes these days, for so many different types of folks, that it's difficult to generalize about the evolution of practice management. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2005 John Nersesian |
The Full Monte By presenting clients with a range of potential results before they experience them and showing them the impact of their investment choices, planners can manage clients' expectations much better than with standard linear forecasting. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2012 Joel Bruckenstein |
Tech Tools: Targeting Wage Earners Wouldn't it be nice if there were a technology that could provide meaningful retirement income solutions to those of more modest means? Imagine if advisors could profitably cater to the mass market. RIO may allow advisors to do just that. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2013 Joel Bruckenstein |
Building a Smarter Portfolio Riskalyze Pro's risk-assessment and portfolio-construction tools aim to help you keep clients from buying high and selling low. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2005 Lauren Barack |
2015: The Social Security Question Financial planners believe that privatizing Social Security will create more work, with little payoff for them or their clients. Assessing a client's risk tolerance for their retirement accounts is one thing. Assessing that tolerance against their Social Security income is another. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2010 Gerri Leder |
In The World Of Managed Money, Advisors Still Add Value Here's what advisors must do now to sharpen their edge. |
Financial Advisor May 2008 Mitch Anthony |
Risky Business How can you accurately determine the amount of risk tolerance a client has when you're asking him to tell you how he will react to an event that hasn't happened yet? |
Financial Advisor October 2007 Roy Diliberto |
Planning From The Inside Out Dealing with a client's hard financial data may mean discussing their most intense emotions about money. |