From Financial Advisor IQ
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Summary: Advisors can build a business with clients shunned by other FAs if they work with Americans living abroad, experts say. There are about nine million American citizens living overseas and few FAs competing for their business, Gabrielle Reilly, senior wealth advisor of Reilly Financial Advisors, which oversees $1.4 billion in client assets, says. But FAs building non-U.S.-based businesses face hurdles ranging from difficulties in client outreach to complex compliance issues.
From WealthManagement.com
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Summary: DETROIT — “It’s hard to believe a research project by a tech company can help us with our sales skills,” intoned Gerry with a pained expression, then continued his stream of consciousness, “the fact that they were able to segment top salespeople and low performers by their use of questions in their sales pitch is very interesting.”
From ThinkAdvisor
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Summary: Most advisors have limited marketing budgets when it comes to finding prospects and turning them into clients. But the best advisor marketers follow some simple, repeatable steps for closing prospects, according to research done by SmartAsset among the advisor users of its SmartAdvisor lead generation service and other advisors over the past year.
From InvestmentNews
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Summary: Pope Francis weighed in on the debate over the need for a universal fiduciary standard for financial advisers Thursday in a wide critique of global finance that admonished advisers who worked against the best interests of their clients.
From Barron's Advisor Center
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Summary: The virtual assistant will be connected to an analytics-powered tool called Envision IQ. The goal is to let advisors review client information on demand even when they’re not in front of a computer. Beta testing shows that less than half of Envestnet users regularly talk to Alexa, but Frank Coates, the company’s executive managing director, said having such a tool available will make voice bots more popular among financial professionals.
