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Find your Fosbury Flop: Innovating on the fundamentals
Firms don't need to completely upend the way they do their work and serve their clients to benefit from new ideas.
Wells Fargo annual meeting ‘less relevant’ amid bank’s CEO search
The bank's shares have fallen 3.1% since CEO Tim Sloan resigned, compared with a 6.5% gain for the KBW Bank Index.
Consider diversity when it comes to mergers and acquisitions
Calculate the demographics when considering the value of adding advisers.
What advisers need to know to serve professional athletes
Financial Finesse CEO shares insights from working with football players.
Richard Thaler wants to use 401(k)s to boost Social Security payments
The Nobel laureate wants to simplify drawing down retirement assets, which he thinks is 'way harder' than saving the money.
Grown children may be hazardous to your wealth
Boomers continue to subsidize adult offspring at the expense of their own retirement.
5 pillars of marketing for advisers
Advisers should break marketing into bite-size pieces that they can prioritize, execute upon against goals and measure for effectiveness.
For Merrill Lynch, emphasis on new clients and cross-selling paying off
The Thundering Herd is doing more business with new households.
3 ways to improve adviser technology
Advisers must evaluate what technology they need to stay profitable, as well as the value of technology investments to their clients.
‘Retire in place’ doesn’t cut it as a succession plan
If advisers spend less and less time on their practice, how competent will they remain as a financial adviser?
RIA succession plan takes the long view
The transfer of ownership over 22 years leverages company shares as an employee reward-and-retention tool.
Creativity matters when planning for lone retirees
Clients who have great wealth but no friends or family require extraordinary steps, special sensitivity.
Rising rich boost stature, growth of family offices
The market for serving wealthy families may be bigger than some data suggest.
62% of firms plan to adopt new client-facing technology this year
New benchmarking data highlight independent advisory firms' intention to invest in their digital client experience.
Headcount at Wells Fargo Advisors continues to slide
Firm lost another 140 advisers in the first quarter, compared with 106 the previous quarter.
How behavioral technology will improve retirement planning
As tech starts to track what clients actually do, report back and personalize their experience, planning processes and the client experience will advance.
Finra guidance could help departing reps hang onto clients
If clients ask, firms must give them contact information for their former brokers
Will Merrill Lynch plan to add fresh advisers to offices be a boon — or a bust?
Referrals between newer and experienced advisers key to the hiring of 300 new advisers.
Thinking beyond $1 billion
Many RIAs falter as they grow, caught off guard when the client-facing work they've always done seems to show diminishing returns.
What a man can learn by attending a women’s financial conference
Understanding the perspective and needs of women in the financial advice industry is an eye-opening experience.
