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Registered Rep. July 15, 2013 Anne Field	Getting the Word Out Positioning yourself as an expert on a particular niche of financial planning is a great strategy, but how do you convince others of your acumen? Our panel of experts have some tips.
Registered Rep. July 14, 2010 Anne Field	How I Fixed My Business For a few years now, we've run regular profiles of advisors in the throes of a particular business challenge, offering advice from a panel of experts. Here's a look at what's happened to three of them since they were profiled.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2008 Anne Field	Hiring Good Help A panel of experts gives advice on hiring the right new employees to grow your firm.
Registered Rep. October 24, 2012 Anne Field	A Tiene Usted Un Plan? A young advisor, originally from Spain, wants to build a business serving international clients living in the U.S., but isn't sure where to begin. We turn to our panel of experts to help him.
Registered Rep. November 21, 2014 Anne Field	Plug And Play? Matthew Westhoff and his partners have a successful practice and want to expand it by letting other advisors plug into their operation. How can they structure a competitive contract and attract qualified candidates?
Registered Rep. September 27, 2012 Anne Field	Going Solo While there are many merits to having partners in the advisory business, for some being a lone practitioner is the only way to go. But it's crucial to set expectations -- and boundaries -- with clients.
Investment Advisor July 2010 Ray Sclafani	The High-Performance Coach: The Five Myths of Professional Networks Why you need professional advocates.
Financial Advisor November 2005 David J. Drucker	Chasing The Wrong Clients? Some think that financial advisors are after the wrong group of wealthy clients.
Registered Rep. April 20, 2011 Anne Field	How to Market Yourself -- When Marketing is Not Your Strong Suit After switching broker dealers, a long-time advisor is looking to attract a handful of reps to his new branch and to publicize his association with his current b/d.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2006 Anne Field	Taking the Growth Plunge Even with the most sophisticated technology available, your financial advisory practice isn't going to grow significantly unless you start staffing up.
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.
Financial Advisor September 2005 Bruce W. Fraser	Through The Eyes Of Estate Planning Attorneys Attorneys and financial advisors are natural allies in the estate planning process, but if the relationship is not cultivated properly, it can deteriorate quickly.
Investment Advisor August 2006 Susan L. Hirshman	The Wealth Advisor: Lessons From the Best With a targeted client plan consisting of an integrated approach for client segmentation, actively pursuing referrals, and furthering meaningful client contact, financial advisors will be on their way to meeting their clients' financial needs.
On Wall Street August 1, 2009 Susan Konig	Dream Teams In a recent survey, 80.7% of financial advisors polled cited improved efficiency as a very important advantage to working in a team environment.
Registered Rep. June 30, 2011 Anne Field	Clearing the Hurdles To Growth You can't build a house without a strong foundation. That, in essence, is why it's so important for advisors, from the beginning, to have a long-term vision and blueprint for the type of practice they want to create.
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.
Registered Rep. June 18, 2014 Matt Oechsli	Building a Multigenerational Wealth Management Team The most common exit strategy for a veteran advisor getting ready to retire is to sell his or her book according to the guidelines established either by their firm or industry valuations standards.
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 Advisor August 2006 David J. Drucker	Do You Need This Kind Of Manager? Financial advisors discuss whether a client relationship manager is someone they need -- or not.
Registered Rep. May 24, 2013 Sallie Krawcheck	Don't Fence Me In Women start businesses at twice the rate of men and predict a bright future for the wealth management industry.
Financial Advisor November 2003 Hinchcliff & Longo	Extraordinary Vs. Ordinary Experts at The 6th Annual Financial Advisor Symposium outlined what it takes for advisory firms to be among the best in the country.
Financial Advisor August 2010 Raymond Fazzi	Looking To Streamline Now that they've experienced the harsh consequences of poor business management, fee-based advisors are looking to their custodians and broker-dealers for all the help they can get.
Registered Rep. September 7, 2015 Anne Field	How to Recruit from the Top R.M. Zalatimo wants to grow by wooing big wirehouse advisors to his independent broker/dealer practice.
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.
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. October 10, 2011 Susan Konig	How to Guide Your FAs through Turbulent Times Branch managers must guide and motivate financial advisors to keep a positive attitude.
Financial Advisor June 2008 Tracey Longo	Swimming Upstream California investment advisor John Threlkeld has been working diligently to serve wealthier and wealthier investors, even purchasing two other advisors' practices and turning all but his top clients over to a junior planner.
Investment Advisor July 2010 Lewis Schiff	Succession Planning: Buying and Selling Wealth Management Practices 2010 could be the biggest year ever for mergers and acquisitions in the financial advisory industry, but the players and strategies are different than they were prior to the market turndown.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 Anne Field	Advisors Who Crave Advice Many financial advisors are putting together tailor-made groups of trusted counselors, people able to provide everything from management basics to industry insights. Here are a few approaches to consider when forming your own.
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.
Investment Advisor August 2010 Melanie Waddell	Broker/Dealer Marketing: Finding Their Voice Broker/Dealers are waking up to the new, post-downturn marketing environment. Here are a few of the best ideas.
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.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2004 Will Leitch	The Advisor as Traffic Cop As high-net-worth investors spread their assets around more liberally, they are finding themselves in need of a traffic cop -- a central advisor who can sit in the middle of all the financial activity and make sense of it all.
Financial Advisor December 2003 Grove & Prince	The Financial Life Of Senior Executives Who do America's top executives favor as their primary financial advisor and how did they find that advisor?
Registered Rep. April 1, 2007	401(k)s Coming Your Way? Big Blue announced that it has hired Fidelity Investments and The Ayco Company to offer financial advice to its U.S. employees. IBM's move may be a first for a major U.S. company. That's good news for financial advisors.
Financial Planning August 1, 2007 Ray Sclafani	Get Some Support An increasing number of B-Ds are recognizing the importance of coaching and training for advisors -- especially their top producers.
Investment Advisor April 2010 Ray Sclafani	Demystifying Referrals To build a client acquisition system, break the process down into nuggets.
Registered Rep. November 27, 2015 Anne Field	The OSJ Way to Grow? Mark McGonagle needs to decide his ultimate business vision. Does he see himself building a large office of financial advisors and spending the majority of his time recruiting and doing compliance and supervisory work?
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.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2002 Walter H. Zultowski	Who Wants a Wealth Manager? Are potential clients excited about the prospect of receiving wealth management services? And of those who are, what characteristics do they share? Phoenix, which specializes in this market, set out to answer these questions in a survey of the high-net-worth population.
Financial Planning December 1, 2011 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Strategies for 2012 and Beyond In these volatile times, you have an excellent opportunity to build relationships with high-net-worth investors who are actively looking for advisor alternatives. With that firmly in mind, here are some key strategies and tactics that will make a big difference over the next year and beyond.
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 April 2006 Bob Clark	Clark at Large: Is Bigger Really Better? Before you rewrite your strategic plan based on Moss Adams's new research, think about why you became an independent advisor in the first place.
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.
Registered Rep. October 17, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	The Odd Couple: Advisors and Accountants Mergers between advisors and accountants are often seen as marriages of mutual interest, but don't kid yourself. Industry experts say there's a Mars-and-Venus quality to the partnerships that makes success difficult.
Registered Rep. September 30, 2015 Anne Field	Stumbling Towards a Team Back in 2000, when Todd Sanford launched his solo firm, Sanford Financial Services, he knew he wanted eventually turn it into a team-based practice.
Investment Advisor June 2010 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: American Standard Comp tables based on surveys of advisory firms won't help you find the right salary range for your firm if those firms are over- or underpaying.
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 John J Bowen Jr	Wide-Angle Lens Too many advisors focus almost exclusively on their clients' investments and ignore a number of other important areas.
Registered Rep. April 2, 2012 Diana Britton	Concert Breaks Into the Hybrid Market Via LPL Partnership RIA aggregator Concert Advisor Services has launched a new hybrid platform, Concert Advisors, and partnered with independent broker/dealer LPL Financial to provide brokerage and custody services.