From Wall Street Journal Online
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Summary: Some advisers aren’t looking very far to find a successor to their practices. They are counting on their sons and daughters to take over one day. There are benefits to having one of the kids as a successor: The business is left to someone with the same value system, clients may be happy to still work with someone from the same family and the adviser can feel pride in having a child carry on their legacy.
From wealthmanagement.com
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Summary: Here are a few lessons to think about while you watch all of the classic Christmas movies. Perhaps the most important lesson of all: Family is everyone's most important consideration.
From Think Advisor
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Summary:Financial advisors’ discomfort with sales is often in inverse proportion to their ease with numbers, graphs and tables. To a professional seeking to provide expertise, and priding himself on his knowledge and competence, selling can feel unpleasantly self-assertive, yet sooner or later advisors recognize that revenue-generating actions must be taken.
From wealthmanagement.com
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Summary: Registered investment advisor firms spend, on average, 2 percent of their total revenue on marketing and business development, excluding the cost of a marketing staff if they have one, according to the 2014 Fidelity RIA Benchmarking Study.
From InvestmentNews
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Summary: Holistic planning, fee-based advice and retirement income strategies. All these are to the financial advice business what fire and the wheel were to ancient civilizations — innovations. Such advances aren't just new ideas or inventions. Innovations are original breakthroughs that cause upheaval and change, and create something of value.
