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  • February 10, 2014

‘Wow’ rewards replace bonuses

Against all logic, Janet Briaud made her employees at Briaud Financial Advisors happier by doing away with annual…

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  • February 9, 2014

Happy employees are vital to success

Believe it or not, Armond Dinverno, president and co-chief executive at Balasa Dinverno Foltz, is more focused on…

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  • February 2, 2014

Wealth manager thrives on ‘do it yourself’ culture

There is no shortage of software products that developers market as the “solution” to financial advisers’ every conceivable…

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  • January 19, 2014

Seizing opportunities in social media

For many advisory firms, social media is the ungainly jigsaw piece that doesn’t seem to fit in the…

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  • December 15, 2013

Smart advisers, smart machines

Brian A. Hunter says that technology is important, but it is no substitution for what people can do…

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  • December 1, 2013

Cultivating a corporate mien leads to profits for advisory firm

E. Jeffrey Roof says that a C-suite mentality is the key behind his financial advisory firm’s stellar profits.

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  • December 1, 2013

Innovation drives results

Record keeping, color coding and cloud computing help one firm add a personal touch to client relationships.

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  • November 3, 2013

Making it a priority to work with clients’ children can pay off

When Kathy Fish’s biggest clients, a married couple, died within a year of each other, she worried that…