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Registered Rep. September 30, 2009 David A. Geracioti	Do Retail Financial Advisors Have an "Unhealthy Focus?" The Financial Times suggests the way financial products and services are sold need to be completely overhauled.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2005	I'm A Broker, You're A Broker At most publicly traded national broker/dealers, about 35 percent of employees are called financial advisors.
Financial Advisor February 2012	Social Media Losing Some Appeal With Financial Advisors Despite the hype about the benefits social media can bring to financial advisors, most advisors don't find it very useful in their businesses.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: Show Me The Money Advisors' gross production varied widely by firm in this year's survey results.
Registered Rep. September 30, 2014	Advisor Views on ETFs As exchange traded funds continue to take more market share, the number of advisors using the structure increased to 84 percent in 2014, up from 82 percent in 2013.
On Wall Street September 1, 2010 Aarti N. Maharaj	Five Questions With Amy Strong Joining Financial Research Corp. as a research analyst in 2007, she examines the state of the industry and marketing effectiveness.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 David A. Geracioti	To Increase Revenue Increase Time Spent With Clients Clients are happier when financial advisors pay close attention to them, and new research suggests that this can manifest itself in more business.
Financial Planning August 1, 2007 John J. Bowen	The Best in the Business Financial advisors can learn much from studying the business practices of their most successful peers.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: Stagnating Assets? It's no surprise that younger advisors have fewer assets under management, yet they are growing at a faster clip.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005	13 Percent Percentage of advisors who say they have switched to a wealth management model.
Registered Rep. October 30, 2015	The State of Independence: Robo Rising Advisors like automated investment platforms for a number of reasons.
Registered Rep. August 25, 2010 Halah Touryalai	Better Economic Times Ahead? Your Clients Don't Think So. Advisors seem more optimistic about the economy than their own clients, according to a recent survey.
Registered Rep. October 31, 2014	Advisor Views on Alternatives While 70 percent of advisors recommend some form of alternative products to their clients, it's a select group.
Financial Planning April 1, 2013	Women Advisors Forum: Learn From the Best Next month's New York gathering offers sessions on divorce planning, career development, digital marketing and more.
Investment Advisor September 2009 Philip Palaveev	Tortoise or Hare Which business model is most acceptable to investors? And which to advisors?
Investment Advisor April 2008 Lewis Schiff	Like Client, Like Advisor New research reveals the personality traits and practices that help advisors become millionaires themselves.
Investment Advisor February 2009 Kara P. Stapleton	Stressed Out? It's no news that advisors are overwhelmed, considering the behavior of the markets and the state of the economy.
Financial Planning March 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr.	For Advisors, a Client-Centered Shift More advisors are shifting toward a broader approach and away from investment management.
Registered Rep. June 23, 2010 Halah Touryalai	Too Much Client Hand-Holding, Not Enough Prospecting The nervous-client-syndrome has yet to wear off. That's according to a new survey that says most advisors are still spending the majority of their time with existing clients rather then generating new business.
Registered Rep. May 19, 2014	The Top Six Reasons Advisors Won't Use Social Media Based on our survey of 447 advisors sponsored by NFP, we broke down the challenges that firms face in their efforts to adopt a social strategy.
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 John J Bowen Jr	Help From My Friends Here are some of the most important issues to consider when working with a financial institution.
Registered Rep. October 6, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Advisors Working with Spouse See Success Among advisors working as part of a team, the most successful are husbands and wives, according to new research by PriceMetrix.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: Fiduciary Worries The Department of Labor is set to rule that brokers working with retirement accounts meet a fiduciary standard.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: Paying Premium? The percentage of advisors' revenues derived from fee-based business ticked up again this year, for the sixth year running.
Registered Rep. August 7, 2014 Megan Leonhardt	Ten Charts That Explain What Advisors Think of Hedge Funds Overwhelmingly, advisors consider hedge funds an alternative investment, increasingly a generic catch-all term for anything that is not a mainstream liquid security.
Investment Advisor August 2008 Kara P. Stapleton	Ups & Downs of ETFs Here are some of the results of a joint survey of investment professionals exploring the impact of exchange-traded products on the financial advisory business.
Registered Rep. April 13, 2004 David A. Gaffen	Merrill Reports Record Quarter Merrill Lynch reported earnings of $1.3 billion for the first quarter of 2004, a 95 percent increase from the same period a year ago.
Investment Advisor November 2009 James J. Green	Numerology: Fewer Assets, More Advisors Total assets managed by investment advisors shrank in 2008 but the number of SEC-registered investment advisors increased.
Financial Planning April 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr.	5 Success Tips From High-Performing Advisors A new study of high-earning advisors offers 5 clear success tips.
Financial Advisor December 2005 Grove & Prince	Raising The Bar On Value-Added Services There is an unequaled opportunity for growth when financial advisors leverage the expertise and resources of financial institutions and partner with their product providers.
Registered Rep. March 31, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Pay and Compensation There seems to be little correlation between satisfaction and production: Advisors earned an average of $548,176 in gross annual production last year and $71.8 million in assets.
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.
Financial Planning May 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz	Need for Education A preview of the 2008 Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking Study, a snapshot of the financial advisory business.
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz	More Than Equal A study of the role of the female financial advisor. The research compares female to male advisors and looks at the varying performance levels of women advisors.
Registered Rep. May 31, 2013 Megan Leonhardt	Sizing Up the Street In the latest earnings cycle, here's how the wirehouses stacked up.
Investment Advisor April 2010 Lewis Schiff	Advisor, Understand Thyself Financial advisors need to understand themselves and their inner drivers, as well as their clients'.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2012 Diana Britton	A Package Deal Most advisors would say they want to do what's best for their clients. But if that's the case, they better not manage their clients' money on their own; better leave that to the home office, new research from Cerulli Associates shows.
Registered Rep. October 30, 2015	The State of Independence: Intelligent Advisor The survey covers over 360 registered investment advisors.
Registered Rep. January 22, 2015 Ryan W. Neal	Advisor Industry Shrinks While Assets Continue to Grow A recent report by Cerulli Associates found that the industry shrank 1.9 percent to 287,119 advisors in 2013. Asset levels, however, are on the rise.
Registered Rep. December 4, 2012 Gallant & Schneider	Are We There Yet? No, But FAs Can Help. In Search of Retirement Income Many advisors mistakenly believe that retirement income clients are a diminishing asset, not recognizing that these clients tend to consolidate investments and to be more loyal.
Financial Advisor March 2012 Bernie Clark	The Changing RIA Advisors need to start thinking bigger and go beyond their current capabilities.
Registered Rep. December 4, 2012 Megan Leonhardt	(No) Experience Necessary When it comes to being a financial advisor, the more experience -- the more years you have on you -- the better, right? Not quite. A new study shows that firms should be cautious when bringing aboard advisors heavy on experience.
Investment Advisor July 2006 Maya Ivanova	Power of the People With the proper guidance, training, and nurturing, your employees can expand your firm's presence, networking opportunities, and pool of referrals and help you grow your financial advisory firm.
Financial Planning October 1, 2012 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Elite Advisors' Best Practices: What Makes for a Successful Planner How do the best financial planners become successful? Developing a vision and a plan for your business takes focus, collaboration and consistency. And it s how the best performers enhance their success.
On Wall Street April 1, 2013 Lorie Konish	Five Questions with Matt Matrisian The director of practice management at Genworth Financial offers advisors tips on avoiding common blind spots.
Financial Advisor May 2012	Advisors, Clients See Portfolios Differently Advisors say their clients are fixated more on shorter-term concerns such as one-year returns (54%), their portfolio's absolute returns (49%) and portfolio volatility (41%).
Registered Rep. December 21, 2011 Diana Britton	Aite: Bloom Coming Off the Rose of Social Media? Financial advisors are just getting started, and already, the bloom seems to be coming off the rose, Aite Group says.
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.
Registered Rep. April 29, 2015 Diana Britton	Advisor Views on The Economy We recently surveyed over 2,000 advisors across channels about their views on the economy and business as part of its 2015 AdvisorBenchmarking All-Channel Report. Here's what they had to say.
Financial Advisor November 2003 Blomfield & Hamil	Who Puts Clients First? Client-centered financial advisors have an edge over ones focused on investments.