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Financial Planning November 1, 2010 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Wow Right Now Starting now, you need to delight your clients if you want to keep their business and maintain their loyalty going forward.
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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.
Financial Planning April 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Listen Up! Want to build great long-term relationships with clients, professional partners and centers of influence in your market niche? Here's a secret: Do a lot less talking and lot more listening.
Financial Planning December 1, 2009 John J. Bowen Jr.	Ten for 2010 Here are five steps that advisors can take right away, followed by five more that will help them position their practices for long-term success.
Financial Advisor June 2008 Grove & Prince	Survival Of The Fittest Whatever plateau your advisory business may have reached, whatever ceiling you might have bumped up against -- now is the time to blast off or blast through.
Financial Planning September 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr.	How to Reach Million-Dollar Clients To move your practice onward and upward, you may need to reconfigure the way you do business. Here s how.
Registered Rep. December 18, 2014 Matt Oechsli	The Year of Financial Advisor Transformation For advisors to capture more affluent business and demonstrate their value beyond performance, they'll have to transform their business.
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Registered Rep. October 14, 2013 Matt Oechsli	Mastering the Personal Introduction An important point to remember is that by asking for an introduction, you are helping your client help you by identifying a specific person you'd like to meet.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2013 Matt Oechsli	Are You an Elite Advisor? The Oechsli Institute recently conducted its annual advisor survey to discover just that. The research shows what today's affluent clients expect from a financial advisor and what advisors are doing to meet these expectations.
On Wall Street November 1, 2011 Elizabeth Wine	The Unfaithful Client Cheating on a financial advisor is a known, but frowned-upon client practice. But new research says that it has been gaining traction among high-net-worth households since the market turmoil began in 2008, with many clients bolstering their stable of advisors.
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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.
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Financial Planning April 1, 2008 John J Bowen	Referrals for the Asking The majority of advisors are ignoring one of the most effective, efficient and obvious sources for new referrals: their existing clients.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 Grove & Prince	Staying Connected If financial advisors need yet another reminder about the importance of contacting clients, here it is: In our study of affluent investors conducted in late October, almost half of the respondents said they had changed primary advisors in the last year, often citing lack of contact.
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.
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Financial Advisor January 2006 Grove & Prince	Key Mistakes Of New Wealth Managers Wealth management is a serious decision for advisors that can be disruptive to their business and difficult to implement. Future generations of advisors can benefit by using these findings to build skills, reorient focus and settle in to the role of wealth manager.
Registered Rep. October 12, 2011 Boswell & Nichols	You Seem Pretty New at This... There are a few areas that new advisors can control to help deemphasize their youth and inexperience.
Registered Rep. November 9, 2011 Boswell & Nichols	Keys to Generating New Advisor Introductions Introductions are an extremely high impact activity when done correctly and they can be just as effective for someone who is brand new to the business as they are for a 30 year veteran.
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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 Planning November 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Learn To Let Go The idea of shedding clients and the revenue they bring may sound reckless, especially in an uncertain economic environment. But working with non-ideal clients is holding you back from reaching your full potential.
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.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Grove & Prince	Theory to Practice For many advisors, the evolution to wealth manager remains a matter of theory, not practice. Sure, they're calling themselves wealth managers, but they're still behaving like financial advisors.
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Registered Rep. July 23, 2003 Nigel Goodman	Servicing Your HNWs A recent Fidelity Investments survey shows that affluent clients will still replace their advisors if they are not meeting portfolio goals. Predictably, the survey encourages advisors to become more attentive to the needs of their affluent clients.
Financial Advisor March 2005 Grove & Prince	Know Thy Clients This is the second in a series of articles about the risks, rewards and challenges of wealth management, as well as the ever-changing tools of the trade.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 Steve Gresham	Zeroing In on the Managed Account Customer Managed accounts are all the rage, but they may not be right for every client. Here are some classic client types who might best be served with managed accounts and some matching marketing strategy for each.
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