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Registered Rep. September 1, 2006 Anne Field	Taking the Growth Plunge Even with the most sophisticated technology available, your financial advisory practice isn't going to grow significantly unless you start staffing up.
Registered Rep. July 25, 2014 Anne Field	Where Are They Now? Occasionally, we go back and see how some of these advisors have fared after receiving our advice. We want to know if it helped and what their plans are for the future.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2008 Anne Field	Hiring Good Help A panel of experts gives advice on hiring the right new employees to grow your firm.
Registered Rep. October 24, 2012 Anne Field	A Tiene Usted Un Plan? A young advisor, originally from Spain, wants to build a business serving international clients living in the U.S., but isn't sure where to begin. We turn to our panel of experts to help him.
Registered Rep. February 14, 2012 Anne Field	The Art of Writing A Check When Jon Yankee and his two partners started their Reston, VA-based firm six years ago, they wanted to do it right. Among other things, that meant putting in place a clearly-thought-out compensation plan for both advisors and staff.
Investment Advisor June 2009 Bob Clark	Embracing Change Many clients just aren't comfortable riding out the kind of volatility that most investment markets experience from time to time.
Financial Advisor July 2009 David J. Drucker	Taming The Bear With ETFs Clients upset? Maybe you should have used ETFs and Tom Lydon's simple investment strategy.
Registered Rep. November 22, 2010 Charles Paikert	Fewer Small Accounts Mean More Production For Advisors: Study What's more, firms that more aggressively reduced small household concentrations among their advisors added approximately $45,000 per advisor in production.
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Registered Rep. November 21, 2014 Anne Field	Plug And Play? Matthew Westhoff and his partners have a successful practice and want to expand it by letting other advisors plug into their operation. How can they structure a competitive contract and attract qualified candidates?
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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.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Bob Clark	Who's Your Daddy? Philip Palaveev's new gig as president of Fusion Advisor Network foreshadows the future of independent advice.
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Registered Rep. December 17, 2014 David Armstrong	Editor's Letter: January 2015 Thankfully, we're burying the old "robo-advisor: good or bad" debate, and moving on to much more exciting things.
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Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Anne Field	Prodigious Heirs How can you make the most of inherited clients? Try the "drip" method. It's about persistently paying attention to all the details, like checking to see if all the account information is up to date and accurate.
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Financial Advisor April 2004 Sydney LeBlanc	What Have You Done For Me Lately? Are advisor marketing tools and business development what they should be?
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Registered Rep. September 30, 2015 Anne Field	Stumbling Towards a Team Back in 2000, when Todd Sanford launched his solo firm, Sanford Financial Services, he knew he wanted eventually turn it into a team-based practice.
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Registered Rep. August 9, 2010 Susan Konig	How One BOM Retains Top FAs The dizzying industry turmoil of the last few years has induced wirehouses to offer their top producers some of the largest retention packages ever.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2006 Anne Field	Staying On Top of It While the market is reaching levels not seen in years, financial advisors have much to be wary about given the steady drumbeat of corporate scandals and complaints.
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Registered Rep. September 12, 2011 Susan Konig	Recruiting Has Been Tough in 2011 but Experts Say It Should Improve Next Year As a result of challenges wirehouse managers are looking to recruit from places they typically didn't in the past.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Anne Field	Staying Together Is Hard to Do Enter into an LLC with your eyes wide open and don't expect that a solid legal structure will protect you against the human factors that make or break a partnership. While you can't guarantee that your venture will succeed, you can go a long way toward preventing it from imploding.
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On Wall Street August 1, 2009 Susan Konig	Dream Teams In a recent survey, 80.7% of financial advisors polled cited improved efficiency as a very important advantage to working in a team environment.
Registered Rep. September 24, 2015	The 2015 Wealth Management Industry Awards Winners Companies like Charles, Schwab, Fidelity, and Betterment are profiled for their achievements in financial services.
Financial Advisor May 2006 David J. Drucker	Think Again In a business whose members clamor for any tidbit of practice management guidance that might help them be more efficient and more effective, it's amazing the client survey hasn't become a prime management tool for financial advisors.
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Registered Rep. April 1, 2007	401(k)s Coming Your Way? Big Blue announced that it has hired Fidelity Investments and The Ayco Company to offer financial advice to its U.S. employees. IBM's move may be a first for a major U.S. company. That's good news for financial advisors.
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