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Education Shakeup for Future Planners
From Financial Planning
Added on November 2015 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: To ensure that their students are receiving the real-life skills they need to succeed, the faculty and administrators in charge of these schools’ financial planning curriculums are working closely with local advisors to repurpose their programs. The mutual objective is to prepare the schools’ graduates to walk out of their classrooms and into jobs at nearby wealth management firms.
How to Scare Away New Talent- Follow these hints in your hiring process to avoid staff turnover
From Investment Advisor
Added on November 2015 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: The estimated financial cost of turnover, depending on the source, can range from one to three times the departing team member's compensation. This is not the most detrimental cost though — even worse is the psychological impact frequent turnover has on firms and how it causes existing team members to lose confidence in their leader, makes it harder to recruit new talent due to a perceived impaired culture and employee-unfriendly reputation, and leads to an overall downward spiral of morale.
RIA Buyers and Sellers Are Growing Wiser
From Investment Advisor
Added on November 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Do you wish to strike a deal for your firm? What sort of deal is best for you? Do you know your firm's value? Some people still believe that firm valuation centers on gross revenues. I recently participated in the annual Deals and Deal Makers Summit, hosted by Echelon Partners, where I learned that such a simplistic formula ignores market and economic reality. Advisory firms today have access to multiple ways of achieving liquidity, buying a stake in the business and obtaining financing for growth.
What Does Junior Do?
From Financial Advisor Magazine
Added on November 2015 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: Junior” advisors are critical for the success of a firm, but their roles and responsibilities in an advisory firm are often misunderstood and frequently mismanaged. To begin with, “junior” advisors hate being called “junior.” They are often neither young nor inexperienced, and while they are not yet at the top of their professions, they can make an immediate contribution to the productivity and profitability of any firm.
The scary truth: The struggle between who we are and what we want
From InvestmentNews
Added on November 2015 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Halloween is a time of candy, costumes and trick or treating. But mostly it's a time for people to dress up and “become” someone else for a night. How many people are really happy with who they are the rest of their days? This is one of the central questions for most humans when they think about their financial life: What are we willing to give up to be the ideal version of ourselves and avoid a scary ending?
