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7 habits — and blunders — of highly successful advisors

From Financial Planning
Added on June 2019 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Some of the highest-rolling AUM advisors in the industry — 218 of them, to be exact — traveled to the Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel, California, this week for TD Ameritrade Institutional’s Elite LINC conference. These planners, CEOs and presidents represent firms averaging $1.5 billion in client assets.

Top financial terms consumers are Googling

From InvestmentNews
Added on June 2019 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Google can be a powerful addition to advisers’ marketing strategy, but only if they know how to use keywords effectively. Advisers have to spend advertising dollars on search terms that everyday people use when looking online for help with money.

What to Do Before You Sell Your Practice

From ThinkAdvisor
Added on June 2019 in M&A Issues
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SummaryPreparing to sell your practice is a bit like preparing for retirement: The earlier you start, the better off you’ll be — and exponentially, so.

The Best Places to Work for Financial Advisers

From InvestmentNews
Added on June 2019 in Join an RIA
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Summary:The Best Places to Work for Financial Advisers program recognizes financial advisory firms that provide employees with the personal satisfaction and tools to grow professionally and to provide clients with the best possible investment and financial planning advice. 

What Fast-Growing RIAs Have in Common, According to DFA

From WealthManagement.com
Added on June 2019 in Thought Leadership
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Summary:It's easy to "grow" as an advisory firm when equity markets are rising. But when you look at registered investment advisors that are truly growing organically—and not simply riding the wave of a bull market—some interesting attributes emerge, according to Dimensional Fund Advisors' most recent RIA benchmarking study. The asset management firm's study compared firms in the top quartile of growth rates with firms in the bottom quartile. 

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