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Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 Anne Field	The Accountant Down the Hall These days, the Holy Grail for financial advisors is to form an official bond with a reputable accounting firm. Simply cultivating a few CPAs willing to send you the occasional client no longer cuts it.
Financial Advisor May 2005 David J. Drucker	Accounting For CPA Referrals Why are CPAs selling client referrals to financial advisers, and should you be buying?
Financial Advisor July 2006 Grove & Prince	Accountants As Wealth Managers Accountants offering wealth management can be double-edged swords -- simultaneously delivering tremendous opportunities and thorny challenges to the firms and professionals they work with each and every day.
Financial Planning June 1, 2009 John J. Bowen Jr.	Culture Clash To create alliances with CPAs, you first have to understand the way most CPAs perceive most financial advisors and then do what's necessary to show that who you are, and what you offer their clients, is quite different from their expectations.
Investment Advisor February 2007 Mark Tibergien	No Accounting For This Advisory firms affiliated with CPAs are outpacing their peers.
Investment Advisor October 2008 Mark Tibergien	The Paradox of the Accountant Advisory practices operating inside of certified public accountant firms are growing but still remain a paradox.
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.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005	13 Percent Percentage of advisors who say they have switched to a wealth management model.
Financial Planning July 1, 2008 Jim Grote	The Matchmaker A financial planner proposes a merger to a large regional accounting firm. Read on to hear how their marriage is working out.
Financial Planning June 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell	Buy the Numbers A small group of financial planners is buying up accounting firms. Here's how-and why-they do it.
Financial Planning February 1, 2005 Paramjit Mahli	Adviser Pulse Although the role of certified public accountants (CPAs) has been gradually evolving for two decades, a recent report highlights how CPAs are making a major push into financial planning, as they quickly redefine themselves to meet market demand.
Financial Advisor August 2006 Hannah Shaw Grove	Life Insurance And Wealth Management Helping client with life insurance is an important service of effective wealth managers.
Investment Advisor September 2005 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: The Price of Everything... If you're not adding profit into what each financial advisory client costs, you're losing money. Advisors who use a combination of performance fees tied to assets and a retainer tied to more complex planning are able to consistently demonstrate their value.
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 John J. Bowen	Behind the Buzz Many advisors are "wealth managers" in name only. Here's how to implement the business model in your practice.
Financial Advisor March 2004 Grove & Prince	Thinking And Acting Like A Wealth Manager It's the difference between offering products and providing solutions.
Financial Advisor June 2005 David J. Drucker	The Ethics Of Paying CPAs For Referrals Sure, financial advisors can pay CPAs for referrals, but is it right?
On Wall Street April 1, 2013 Donald Jay Korn	Ultra-Wealthy Wary of Trusting a Single Advisor While ultra-wealthy individuals tend to put their trust in wealth managers, the bad news is most tend to use multiple advisors.
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.
Investment Advisor July 2006 Jamie Green	Show Me, Show Them Stuart Zimmerman's constancy of though and consistency of application have propelled him and the companies he's help found to the top of not just the CPAs-turned-planners field, but the RIA marketplace in general in just 12 years of business. Here's an interview.
Financial Advisor November 2009	Frontline News Advisor News: Poll on advisor pay... Citi Embracing Fee-Only Model... RIAs Set Record For Repurchasing Their Firms... FINRA Expands Arbitration Pilot Program... SEC Expects To Examine 9% Of RIAs Annually... more...
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Registered Rep. June 2, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Compensation Survey 2015: The Slowly Disappearing Commission Moving from a commission-based business to one based on fees, advocates argue, removes conflicts and puts advisors on the same side of the table as their clients.
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Financial Advisor July 2006 Dorothy Hinchcliff	Climbing A Stairway To Heaven As boomers age and spend their savings, financial advisors will need to adapt their practices.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2006 Kristen French	The Wealth Management Quest Are you really a wealth manager? Do you know what the phrase really means? It pays to know, because a new compensation report shows only 8% of advisors -- across all business channels -- actually fit the bill.
Investment Advisor August 2007 Maya Ivanova	A Victim of Success? A recent survey of registered investment advisors reports that while advisors recognize that marketing is a key component of their business, few devote enough time to this vital activity.
Investment Advisor August 2005 Melanie Waddell	The Playing Field: Serving Mid-Tier Millionaires Mid-tier millionaires desperately want to reduce the complexity of managing their wealth and consolidate all of their financial needs under one roof. Can you help them?
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. December 17, 2014 Jerry Gleeson	Meet Your Robo Advisor Like other firms often maligned as "robo-advisors," Personal Capital provides an online platform of free tools that let investors track and benchmark their holdings.
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 Kristen French	Trading Up The Wealth Advisor Institute, a new trade group for advisors who cater to the wealthy, opened its doors in June.
Financial Advisor July 2005 Raymond Fazzi	Defining Wealth Management The term "wealth manager" has provided more sizzle than clarity in recent years, as more and more advisors have adopted the name as they transition to more comprehensive practices geared toward affluent clients.
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Registered Rep. February 1, 2006 Russ Alan Prince	Rep's Honor Here is how wealth management readily translates into additional assets under management for financial advisers and what they can do reach this target market.
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.
Registered Rep. December 7, 2011 Philip Palaveev	The Say on Pay: Registered Rep.'s 2011 Compensation Survey Financial advisors continue to expand their practices, work with more clients and receive ample compensation for their efforts.
Investment Advisor May 2009 Kelli Cruz	Walk On The trend of wirehouse advisors joining the independent RIA channel has ramped up significantly in the last several years, and is only increasing in the wake of Wall Street's epic meltdown.
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Investment Advisor July 2006 Robert F. Keane	Getting It All Done While for many advisors taking the wealth management route is a no-brainer, it's not without potential pitfalls. Wealth management covers much more than just how much money the client has.
Registered Rep. May 8, 2013 Diana Britton	Moving on Up: Go Independent and Make More $ Advisors who switched firms saw a jump in their compensation, especially among those who went independent.
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