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Investment Advisor July 2010 Ray Sclafani |
The High-Performance Coach: The Five Myths of Professional Networks Why you need professional advocates. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Jim Grote |
Split Decisions Mark Hill has used his expertise in divorce planning to build his wealth management practice. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Collaborative Divorce A bitter divorce can be hard on everybody, including a financial advisor. As husband and wife try to inflict emotional and financial damage on one another, their advisor may be caught in the middle. But there is a better way -- collaborative divorce. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2009 Jim Grote |
Domestic Affairs Elaine King prepares her divorcee clients for (1) financial independence; (2) a well-planned estate; and (3) a family that is competent and comfortable with wealth. |
Financial Advisor May 2007 Bruce W. Fraser |
When Clients Divorce When faced with divorcing clients, financial advisors can lose two clients, retain one or both. Which will you experience? |
Investment Advisor April 2008 Susan Bradley |
E Pluribus Unum When clients have a sudden change in their money situation, collaboration among their advisors is crucial. |
Financial Advisor July 2005 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
A Kinder, Gentler Way To Divorce The financial impact of blowing a marriage apart can leave behind a lot of destruction. But collaborative divorce is gaining popularity as a way to ease much of the pain and suffering. |
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. |
Financial Advisor February 2006 Grove & Prince |
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The top 1,200 U.S. financial advisors, who regularly earn more than $1 million on an annual basis, rely on characteristics and techniques that can be adopted and refined by a great number of advisors. |
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 Advisor November 2009 David Lawrence |
Different Light Two recent conferences look at economic pressures on advisors, but from different perspectives. |
Financial Advisor March 2011 David Lawrence |
Open For Business More software firms that serve advisors are making it easier for them to integrate programs developed by others. |
Investment Advisor February 2008 Angela Herbers |
Barring the Door How to stop training your (future) competition. |
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 Advisor January 2006 Karen DeMasters |
Sudden Wealth, Sudden Mess? Windfall recipients may need special handling by financial advisors -- and maybe a kick in the pants. Done right, that relationship can translate into a multigenerational client. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr. |
5 Success Tips From High-Performing Advisors A new study of high-earning advisors offers 5 clear success tips. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2012 Donald Jay Korn |
Split Decisions A fundamental fact of divorce is that it realigns relationships. When their clients divorce, financial planners must make sure they promptly and clearly redefine their own relationships with those clients. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2013 Miriam Rozen |
How to Tap Divorce Attorneys for Work Some advisors spell opportunity D-I-V-O-R-C-E. Here are their tips for working the breakup. |
Investment Advisor March 2010 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: What Do Counselors Think About Clients? Advisors to wealthy families speak out about clients and careers. |
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. |
Financial Advisor September 2005 Eric L. Reiner |
Philanthropic Planning: It's Not For Everyone Financial advisers who offer philanthropic planning gain a competitive advantage in the ultra-high-net-worth marketplace. |
Bank Technology News September 2002 Elizabeth Logue |
Wealth management: Advisors Finally Waking Up to the Internet's Useful Influence Bucking the market once again, Charles Schwab is doing the unthinkable: encouraging financial advisors to use the Internet to service affluent customers. |
Financial Advisor July 2005 Bruce W. Fraser |
How To Successfully Select An Estate Planning Attorney In this litigious era, there's reason aplenty for having a formal process in place for selecting an estate planning attorney for your financial planning team and not leaving it, say, to a chance meeting of someone at lunch or a seminar who seems to fit the bill. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2008 John J. Bowen |
The Right Ally Forming strategic alliances with the right professional advisors -- such as CPAs and attorneys -- is one of the best avenues for advisors to acquire additional high-net-worth investors. |
Financial Advisor April 2007 Grove & Prince |
Tune In To America's Core Wealthy Small business owners represent that greatest potential for growth and wealth in America. Historically, they have been a lucrative and complex client for financial advisors and will remain so. |
Investment Advisor November 18, 2010 Lewis Schiff |
What Good Leaders Already Know Leading an effective advanced planning team -- or your practice -- isn't that different from leading in the corporate world |
Financial Planning February 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr. |
What CPAs Want Almost 82% of wealth managers have told CEG Worldwide that referrals from other professionals, such as CPAs, are a very important source of new clients. |
Investment Advisor November 2009 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Reading Your Clients A key differentiator between financial advisors who help their client achieve positive returns and those who help their clients achieve superior returns is moral and emotional competency. |
Financial Advisor August 2007 Grove & Prince |
Corporate Executives Need Special Treatment Corporate executives can bring important growth opportunities to their advisor -- a long-term relationship filled with changing needs and expanding wealth, and access to their colleagues who may have similar needs and priorities. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2012 Jim Grote |
Wisdom in Numbers Networking separates successful leaders from the rest of the pack. The most efficient technique for getting things done in your own practice may well involve joining a study group. |
Financial Advisor April 2006 Grove & Prince |
More Secrets Of The Elite 1200 In this third part in a series examining the characteristics of financial advisors who earned a minimum of $1 million per year in each of the past three years, these advisors show how using a basic process helps to capture additional assets from clients. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Jim Grote |
Practice Profile: The Innovator Charles Haines pioneered life planning, legacy planning and multifamily offices. What will he be up to next? |
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. |
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. |
Financial Advisor March 2006 Grove & Prince |
The Secrets Of Million-Dollar Producers Here is how the role client loyalty plays in both the sustainability of the client/advisor relationship through difficult market conditions and poor performance and the client's willingness to provide more assets and referrals to the advisor. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 John J. Bowen |
Your Network of Experts Working with experts outside of your advisory firm is a key component of successful wealth management. But choosing the right professionals to work with isn't easy. Here's how to do it. |
Registered Rep. March 28, 2012 Lena S. Rizkallah |
TRUSTS & ESTATES: April is National Financial Literacy Month Now more than ever, individuals should become familiar with the financial tools they need to create and follow a budget, manage debt and save for retirement. |
Financial Advisor April 2008 David Drucker |
Why Aren't We There Yet? When asked about financial planning as a profession, most advisors get introspective with observations like, "I don't know if our industry is a profession yet, but I know I'm a professional." When will financial become a true profession? |
Registered Rep. June 1, 2012 Anne Field |
Courting Centers of Influence Getting referrals from COIs requires some strategy. Here's what worked for a few advisors. |
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. |
Financial Advisor December 2007 Richard B. Wagner |
Claiming And Clarifying Our Turf The advice/sales conundrum in the financial field has taken another twist. Worse, it is no longer an intra-profession struggle but a direct conflict between industry and profession. |
Financial Advisor August 2005 Evan Simonoff |
Editor's Note Advisors are as guilty of retaining complete control as young entrants to the business are of excessive expectations. What we have here is a market that's very much like the one for advisory firms. It's not clearing. |
Financial Advisor September 2005 Rebecca Pomering |
The Haves And The Have-Nots Any report that makes financial advisors examine their profession, the industry, and more importantly their businesses, is a good report. Even if all the predictions in the report are wrong, having built a better business will only be to your benefit, after all. |
Financial Advisor January 2007 Tracey Longo |
Amazing Relationships While the great service experiences financial advisors are delivering will vary depending on a firm's principles and its client base, what they share is the ability to provide meaningful communication and client-centric assistance in a timely fashion. |
Financial Advisor April 2004 Grove & Prince |
Creating A Wealth Management Team Team members are competitive, but that shouldn't hurt their service. |
Investment Advisor April 2010 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: The Challenges of Advising the Affluent Advisors need to focus on more than just assets with their very wealthy clients. |
Financial Advisor May 2006 David L. Lawrence |
Integrated Advisor Platforms Software can help financial advisors with the one-stop-shop approach. |
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Suzanne McGee |
Higher and Higher Today, there are more than 9 million Americans with at least $1 million to invest. Even for the best-prepared and best-educated advisor, a time may come when they need to consider whether continuing to work with their ultra-affluent client is in the best interests of both parties. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2013 Glenn G. Kautt |
Teamwork: A Winning Combination Successful financial planning organizations almost always take a collaborative team approach, building on the complementary skills of members. |
Financial Advisor June 2011 Michael W. Byrnes |
Social Media Networking Becomes Even More Important Whether a believer or disbeliever in the power of social media, it is important to see the trends and know how business will be impacted. This article shares three things to keep up with as the industry evolves. |