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5 moves to get more out of client and staff meetings

From InvestmentNews
Added on January 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Between gathering with clients, prospects, centers of influence, product providers, colleagues and staff, advisers spend most of each week in meetings. Business development expert Cameron Herold offers five tips for turning each huddle into a more productive session.

CFP Board Taps Insider to Run New Center To Support Young Advisors

From Financial Planning
Added on January 2016 in Join an RIA
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Summary: The CFP Board has tapped attorney Marilyn Mohrman-Gillis as the inaugural head of its new CFP Board Center for Financial Planning. The center, created to attract and support the next generation of planners through research, forums and new initiatives, launched in January.

RIA Leaders 2016: Where Are the Top Firms?

From Financial Planning
Added on January 2016 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Financial Planning annually ranks the largest, truly independent RIAs in the United States – but where do they fall on the map? Click through to see a breakdown of the top 150 firms by region.

Which channels are yielding the most new client assets for RIAs?

From InvestmentNews
Added on January 2016 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Independent financial advisers are increasingly finding clients from a range of investor pools, not just snagging most away from big-name brokerages. In some cases, they are even stealing them away from firms that look a lot like themselves.

Financial Professionals: Stop Using These 3 Words in Your Writing

From IRIS
Added on January 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: How many of you have written the following at some point?

  • Just checking on the status of…
  • Actually, I only needed…
  • Sorry to bother you…

I know I have done this! So, why do we do this? Why strip our writing of any power? Are we really sorry for bothering someone for something we need? Is our goal to minimize what someone else thinks of our request?

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