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Where Can Advisors Find Valuable Health Care Advice?

From Think Advisor
Added on August 2016 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: [VIDEO] Jamie Hopkins, Esq., MBA, RICP®, Co-Director of the New York Life Center for Retirement Income at The American College of Financial Services, joins Dr. Katy Votava, President and founder of health care consulting firm GOODCARE. The pair discuss how financial advisors can find resources for quality health care advice to recommend to their clients, including several websites that provide specialized Medicare consulting.

The trade-offs, soul-searching and stress of a succession transition

From Financial Planning
Added on August 2016 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: For years, financial industry writers and consultants have probed every aspect of how to create a smooth succession for financial advisory practices.

Not so fast big boy: Small RIAs will survive M&A trend

From Financial Planning
Added on August 2016 in M&A Issues
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Summary: There is no question that the planning profession is currently experiencing a period of consolidation. Smaller firms are merging to create multi-partner entities, more often than ever before. Larger firms are buying practices that never created a viable succession strategy. At every conference I attend these days, I hear hallway conversations about the advantages of scale.

A Seven-Step Plan to Transform Your Practice

From Advisor Perpectives
Added on August 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Advisory firms face a daunting challenge as they prepare themselves for the latest version of the future. They will have to retool their service offering for a new generation of clients (aka Millennials), who have very different preferences, different advice needs and far more digital sophistication than your Baby Boomer clients ever had.

Big Data: Why It's Important and How It's Changing the Industry

From IRIS
Added on August 2016 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: In the 2015 Advisor Authority Study conducted by Jefferson National and Harris Poll, we learned that the most successful advisors are truly tech-obsessed. Advisors who manage more assets and generate more revenue spend substantially more on technology and adopt technology into their practice at twice the rate of the average advisor.

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