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Friday, November 20, 2009
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Practice Management
Mention 401(k) to financial advisers and most will say that they lack the knowledge, resources and time to compete with the relative handful of those who specialize in retirement plan sales.
Financial advisers lack the strategies and tools to service small accounts effectively, according to findings from a recent Russell Investments survey.
As a financial adviser, you likely can reflect back to late August 2008 and recall the angst that a falling stock market brought about every day.
The debate about health care reform has resulted in at least one potential benefit: People are talking about end-of-life decision making.
Next year provides financial advisers with a unique opportunity to help wealthy clients and prospects.
By now, everyone with a pulse is aware that the game for financial professionals has changed, and an entirely new set of rules has evolved.
A few early-bird financial advisers are starting to make plans to hire new employees.
Summer is usually a time when advisers kick back and relax. But with revenue down across the industry, this summer may be quite different. Indeed, many advisers are suddenly looking for ways to fill the revenue void left by the market's downturn.
Financial advisers who have cut back on the work hours of their support staff to economize are reordering their service priorities to make sure clients aren't neglected.
The financial health of many affluent families isn't good. That is why most of these families are open to a second opinion regarding their finances.
Investors are angry, scared and looking for someone to blame for the economic downturn, and unfortunately, advisers often are the scapegoats, bearing the brunt.
Coming up with effective marketing initiatives in today's challenging financial environment can be difficult.
If you are serious about attracting affluent clients to your practice, keep reading.
Finra may have given broker-dealers and registered representatives a reprieve of sorts last year as the amount in fines and enforcement actions it levied against firms plummeted.
I hope that the market goes up this year.
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