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Investment Advisor August 2010 Dan Skiles |
The Technology Coach: Advisors: What Is Your Mobile Technology Strategy? How can your advisory firm leverage mobile devices and smart phones to conduct business and better serve clients? |
Financial Advisor November 2012 Andrew Gluck |
Rethinking The Advisor Desktop An onslaught of new apps comes at a poignant moment for financial advisors -- when their business model is in deep trouble. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2013 Joel Bruckenstein |
Windows 8 Review: 5 Things to Know Advisors need to understand some core essentials about the new mold-breaking Microsoft operating system. |
Investment Advisor September 2006 Lauren Barack |
Going Mobile To compete, broker/dealers are improving their technology platforms, with an eye on mobility. |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Andrew Gluck |
2011 Tech Trends Advisors should notice these six developments over the coming year. |
Financial Advisor March 2008 Joel Bruckenstein |
Kicking It Up A Notch Tech upgrades at some of the larger independent broker-dealers. |
Investment Advisor June 2007 Lauren Barack |
Streamlining Broker/dealers are aiming for a one-click model for their technology platforms. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2012 Joel Bruckenstein |
Financial Planning 2012 Tech Survey The readers of Financial Planning evaluate the software, hardware, mobile devices and advisory platforms that planners use most. |
Registered Rep. June 16, 2011 Diana Britton |
Securities America Jumps on the Social Media Bandwagon Independent broker/dealer Securities America announced its new social media program, which will allow all of its 1,800 reps to access and post content on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2013 Davide Pio |
Max Mobility A few apps and low-cost subscriptions could free you from your office PC or Mac and allow you to truly work from anywhere there's a Wi-Fi connection or cellphone service. |
Investment Advisor February 2010 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Trends in Client Communication The pressure for greater efficiency and convenience is propelling advisors to try new means of communication. Not surprisingly, most new channels appear with new technologies or updated applications of old techniques. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2011 Joel Bruckenstein |
Tech Survey From iPads to Androids to cloud providers, technology evolves oh-so-fast, and FP's annual tech survey reveals that advisor technology usage is changing rapidly too. |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2011 Robert Neumann |
iDeal Tool of Sales Trade The sleek, portable iPad, coupled with customized apps, gives sales reps a leg up. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Efficiency: Hitting the Tech Target Some advisors are still balking at portfolio rebalancing tools and automated workflow technology that could make their practice more profitable. |
Financial Advisor November 2009 Evan Simonoff |
The Client Paradox For advisors, it's one thing to sense an opportunity. But when you are going through as much emotional stress as most have, it requires a great deal of intestinal fortitude to go out and try to capitalize on it. |
Investment Advisor October 2007 Julie Littlechild |
Got a Minute? A big study finds that the best financial advisors are efficient in two different ways. |
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 June 2009 Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Stepping It Up Broker-dealers are enhancing the technology they offer to advisors. |
Registered Rep. December 21, 2010 Lauren Barack |
There's a Financial Planner App for That Experts agree that while financial advisors are increasingly adopting mobile devices, they should still use caution and common sense when client data is involved. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2011 Mike Byrnes |
Pulling Out All Stops Since 2008, the financial services industry has taken a beating-not just in assets under management and performance, but in reputation, as well. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Kevin Barr |
Integration Ardor With careful analysis and discipline, financial advisors can take advantage of a host of technologies to make their businesses run more smoothly. And until that silver bullet appears, caveat emptor. |
Financial Advisor September 2010 David Lawrence |
The Need For Simplicity How to prepare reports efficiently while keeping them understandable for clients. First in a two-part article on retirement issues for advisors. |
Financial Advisor April 2007 William Glasgall |
Why Marketing Works Over the years, many advisors, being analytical people at heart, have relegated marketing to a minor role behind crunching numbers for clients' financial plans and investment portfolios. Now, that attitude seems to be undergoing a long-needed change. |
Financial Advisor February 2006 Joel Bruckenstein |
Rep Tech A broker-dealer's technology can play a key role in a rep's success and satisfaction. Perhaps independent reps should regularly compare the technology that their B-D offers against what leaders in the field have to offer. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Donna Mitchell |
Hot Topics M&A activity peaked in 2010... Advisors in touch... Untapped business serving retiring boomers... |
CIO December 21, 2012 Lauren Brousell |
Mobile App Helps the Harried Sales Rep Siri has a cousin: Sophia is a voice-recognition app that helps on-the-go sales representatives handle record keeping chores. |
Registered Rep. March 31, 2015 Anne Field |
Compensation Alternatives For advisors targeting younger clients, an AUM-based fee doesn't make much sense, and increasingly high-net-worth clients suspect they are not getting their money's worth. |
Financial Advisor May 2009 David J. Drucker |
Crisis Intervention Broker/Dealers unveil new programs to help advisors survive the recession. |
Registered Rep. June 4, 2012 Lauren Barack |
The Fishbowl Effect As financial advisor ratings websites like BrightScope and Advice IQ proliferate, advisors are going to have to get comfortable with having their records a click away from clients and prospects. |
Financial Advisor November 2008 Gail Liberman |
War Breaks Out For Wirehouse Brokers The economic crisis on Wall Street, among many other things, is causing wirehouse brokers to reconsider the value proposition offered by the giant financial service firms. |
Information Today March 22, 2010 Richard Oppenheim |
Google Launches Apps Marketplace for Business While search remains its terrific cash cow, Google has greatly expanded its business-oriented connectivity platform. |
Registered Rep. May 2, 2007 Kevin Burke |
It's Not About the Money The firms that have the highest number of satisfied financial advisors aren't necessarily the ones with the highest-paid financial advisors. Industry experts say that what really drives advisors to jump is friction with a supervisor. |
Financial Advisor December 2011 Eric Rasmussen |
Free-Range Advisors Custodians to independent advisors are in an arms race to give bigger, better software and practice management packages. |
Registered Rep. February 21, 2012 Timothy D. Welsh |
Letter From Dallas: Day Two at t3 Conference -- Going Mobile 75 software vendors jockey for position to gain mindshare of the 400 -- 500 advisors looking to purchase the latest tools and innovation to make their businesses more efficient and scale with their growth. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2007 |
Practice Makes Perfect Many independent broker/dealers are shifting their drive for growth inward, developing programs to help advisors build their businesses, as well as attracting new talent with incentives such as sign-on bonuses. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2010 Joel Bruckenstein |
Technology Survey 2010 With the renewed interest and investment in advisor technology, we expect to see further gains next year. It is a slow process, but as an industry we are becoming more technologically proficient. |
Registered Rep. March 30, 2011 Matt Matrisian |
Bridging the Succession-Planning Gap Too many advisors need help planning their financial futures. Today, only about 18 percent of independent advisors have a well-defined business succession plan that is ready to implement. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2004 Will Leitch |
The Rep's Ugly Friend As the industry continues its inexorable march toward "wealth management," advisors have had to add new tools to their workbenches. Among all of them, reps seem to have the most trouble getting comfortable with life insurance. |
Financial Advisor November 2012 Joni Youngwirth |
From Solo To Silo, From Ensemble To Enterprise Firms evolve for many reasons. What kind of firm is yours? |
Investment Advisor July 2006 Lauren Barack |
Contact Point CRM software makers are now combining clever programming with more robust software to offer advisors a more streamlined, smarter way to keep current clients happy and bring more clients into their financial family. |
Registered Rep. July 8, 2011 Lauren Barack |
AIG's Advisor Group Kicks Open Door to Social Media For Reps Advisor Group will allow its more than 4,800 independent reps to, in many cases, post freely on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. |
Financial Advisor December 2011 David Lawrence |
Efficiency Tools In the financial services world, there are many items to capture the fancy of advisors. The challenge is finding the ones that improve your ability to get things done rather than creating unnecessary distractions. |
Financial Advisor January 2005 Tracey Longo |
How Fee-Based Programs Led 2004 Brokerage Profits Fee-based profitability is not lost on brokerage executives, who are ramping up programs designed to attract more planners to a fee-based business model and away from traditional commissions. |
Financial Advisor February 2, 2009 Joel Bruckenstein |
Skipping Bells And Whistles The difficult 2008 market environment has forced many financial advisory firms to rethink their approach to technology, both in the upcoming year and beyond. |
On Wall Street March 19, 2013 Bill Willis |
Recruiter's Tour of Raymond James Morgan Keegan employees were required to make a home office visit after their firm was acquired by Raymond James. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2007 Ray Sclafani |
The Future is in Retirement By helping clients envision later-life goals, You can build value in your practice. An exclusive conversation with coach Dan Sullivan. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Kathy Gevlin |
Advisor Pulse The happiest financial advisors really do put their clients first, asserts the first study of advisor satisfaction. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Deborah Doyle McWhinney |
Independents' Day As investment advisors become more popular and profitable, they must find new ways to keep ahead of the competition. |
Financial Advisor January 2006 Tracey Longo |
Working Smarter, Not Harder As more independent broker-dealers set themselves up as strategic outsourcing partners, they are finding bigger and better firms driven to their door by stagnant or shrinking profit margins and the accelerating compliance melee. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
Who's Planning? A study by Boston-based AiteGroup found that only 18% of independent advisors make financial planning the center of their practice. |