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Why more advisers are choosing the RIA route

From On Wall Street
Added on September 2016 in Form an RIA
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Summary: In recent months, there has been an upsurge of serious interest from traditional brokers in becoming registered investment advisers, reversing a recent trend.

Advisors, It Pays to Thank Clients—Consistently: Janus Labs

From Think Advisor
Added on September 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Gratitude can be defined as the quality of being thankful or the readiness to return kindness.Janus Labs, Janus Capital’s consulting arm, created a program it called “The Art of WOW” nearly five years ago to help encourage advisors and financial professionals to express gratitude on a regular basis.

When Advisors Break Away, Cybersecurity Also Gets Broken

From Think Advisor
Added on September 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: While many larger firms and wirehouses are tied to legacy technology infrastructure, advisors who break away from these firms and go independent have the freedom to embrace new technologies.

How to Build A Profitable AND Valuable Practice

From IRIS
Added on September 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Many good practitioners achieve the objective of building a profitable practice easily enough. After all, that is little more than keeping the sales and revenue pumping at a faster rate than it costs to run the business, right?  Once the sales and revenue part is figured out and there is enough business coming in to cover the operating costs and practitioners remuneration, there is a profit for the business.

Kitces: Can getting a CFP mark boost income?

From Financial Planning
Added on September 2016 in Join an RIA
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Summary: Driven by consumers’ rising demand for financial planning advice, the number of CFP certificants recently crossed 75,000 — more than doubling since 2000 — even as the total number of financial advisers has declined over that time period. Indeed, the desire for advisers who can provide financial advice beyond just picking products or portfolios is so strong, that getting the CFP mark is starting to pay real dividends.

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