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Investment Advisor January 2010 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: Where Credit Is Due As the financial crisis ebbs, advisory firms should be sure to take care of their employees.
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Financial Advisor November 2008 Rebecca Pomering	Do You Need A CEO? While long the norm in most other industries, full-time, dedicated managers are relatively new to financial advisory firms.
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Financial Advisor September 2004 David L. Lawrence	Finding Profit In Written Policies And Procedures The exercise of writing the procedures for a financial practice can reveal ways to trim the process, refine your workflow systems and make things work better in a practice. Freeing up time and that of employee(s) can save money.
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Financial Advisor May 2007 David Lawrence	Walk The Line Typically, the financial advisor who runs his/her own practice wears a number of hats. Given that challenge, it might be prudent to consider more efficient ways of carrying out the various roles demanded of the financial advisor.
Investment Advisor May 2008 Angela Herbers	Stepping Up Difficult economic times like these require advisors to address the concerns of their staffs.
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Investment Advisor August 2008 Angela Herbers	Hop Off the Bus, Gus The number one problem faced by most advisory firms these days is employee turnover, resulting from poor hiring and poor management.
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.
Financial Advisor November 2008 John Knowlton	A Bigger Challenge A reasonable case can be made that the greatest challenge facing the financial advisory profession will be to attract, develop and retain qualified staff.
Financial Advisor October 2006 David J. Drucker	The Equity Fallacy You should have a clear vision of where you want to take your financial firm, including your own succession plan; hire to meet that growth objective, determining whether dedicated or entrepreneurial employees (or some combination of the two) will get you there; and devise the appropriate incentives.
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Investment Advisor November 2009 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: The M Word Cometh Older and younger advisors both have a new appreciation for marketing.
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Investment Advisor November 2006 Angela Herbers	Operation Ownership One of the major failings of the independent advisory industry has been the reluctance of advisors with established practices to extend ownership to junior professionals who helped them attain their success.
Investment Advisor October 2008 Dan Inveen	The Architects The best firms focus their business planning on the here and now, which makes their futures much brighter.
Financial Advisor September 2011 David Lawrence	What Are You Doing? Ask yourself three key questions to find out how to improve your business.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2008 Anne Field	Making Employees Count When your firm begins to grow, you have to hire more staff -- but that's not enough. You have to develop solid processes to help them work efficiently and effectively.
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Investment Advisor October 2008 Angela Herbers	Know Thyself NexGen advisors often wonder how much they should get paid. To get a fair offer, first they need to accurately determine what they're worth.
Investment Advisor June 2007 Angela Herbers	Bidding War Here's how financial advisory practices can attract and retain high-quality professional talent, when they can't afford to pay the high competitive compensation of the big firms. The secret is that one needn't offer the biggest paycheck, just the best job.
Investment Advisor January 2006 Maya Ivanova	Listen Up Financial advisory firms are demonstrating their ability to weather the tough times of the last few years. But to continue their profitability in the future, they need to make client service a priority.