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Five Mistakes Planners Make When Running Their Businesses

From wealthmanagement.com
Added on January 2020 in Form an RIA
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Summary: Many planners spend too much time working in their practices and often forget they need to work on them as well.

9 ways advisers can add value for clients

From InvestmentNews
Added on January 2020 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: I often field questions about which adviser fee model is the best: commissions, fee-based, AUM-based or a subscription. Financial compensation drives adviser behavior to a degree, and therefore some compensation models are better than others. But the assessment needs to go beyond compensation – it needs to focus on value.

Year in Review: 2019 Subscriber Infographic

From RIA Match
Added on January 2020 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: In 2019, we reported on our annual subscriber data to provide insights to advisory firm principals as they refine their firm's succession and strategic growth plans. A completed RIA Match profile includes comprehensive information from up to 72 data points. This aggregated data offers insights from over 5,100 subscribers. Download the Subscriber Infographic where we provide a snapshot of the advisor types, trends and goals. Be curious and communicate with your matches!

Voices: Are advisors overpaid?

From Financial Planning
Added on January 2020 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: I offended an entire table of fellow financial advisors while attending a conference last year when I made this statement: “Everyone at this table makes too much money relative to what we do.”

Mitigating the 3 common conflicts of AUM fiduciaries

From InvestmentNews
Added on January 2020 in Form an RIA
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Summary: For years, there’s been an ongoing tug of war in the financial services industry about standards of care, compensation and business structure. Based on what was once almost the expanded Department of Labor fiduciary rule and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Regulation Best Interest rule, one might believe advisers who charge an asset under management fee are the “good guys” and everyone else the “bad guys.”

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