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Summary: A long-ago boss often reminded us that our business obligations extended to five constituencies: our clients, our employees, our community, our business partners (vendors and suppliers) and our industry.
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Summary: Beverly Flaxington provides insight to the best way to integrate a new, young advisor into our practice for an advisor who say their firrm is too small to have a formal training program and doesn't have time to sit with someone and provide step-by-step instruction.
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Summary: The key part of our business management strategy is to create firms that take as much off their owner-advisors’ plates as possible. Not only does this eliminate what’s almost always the major bottleneck in a firm, it also gives firm owners more free time in and out of the office.
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Summary: Most of us have recognized several important issues in our industry: The average advisor age is over 50, the advisor population continues to decline and many of the traditional training programs are not producing new advisors at a pace similar to the past.
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Summary: If you think the current battle between Schwab and the robos is just an amusing distraction, think again. If you don't adapt, you might become collateral damage to a battle that is just picking up steam.