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Summary: With so much choice in terms of business models and affiliations, advisors have little excuse to stay at a firm that no longer serves their clients or their careers in a way that’s anything short of optimal. Yet the day-to-day of business and relationship management often takes priority, and few rarely stop to take a closer look at their firm.
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Summary: It’s hard to believe that it’s been 5 years since we launched RIA Match. Our last blog focused on the importance of ‘Being Curious’ – a key trait we found among our most active and successful subscribers. In this blog, we focus on our own curiosity themes that we’ve seen between the buyer and seller relationship over the past 5 years and some key takeaways:
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Summary: The challenge for established firms is upgrading portfolio accounting and reporting legacy software that contains many years of transactional data for thousands of accounts. With so much important client data at stake, advisors attempt to tackle the legacy dilemma by keeping their current technology. Let’s review a couple of questions I’ve heard from advisors.
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Summary: Making sure your organization has a distinct culture that both seeks and values contributions from employees is one of the most important things you can do when building and growing a business. As Harvard Business Review author Rob Markey states, "Loyal, passionate employees bring a company as much benefit as loyal, passionate customers.
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Summary: There is no shortage of advice for RIAs on marketing to the millennial generation, and financial services firms are increasingly catering to the next generation of wealth builders. While it’s vital to devote an increased share of business development efforts on the generation, it’s just as important to be actively cultivating millennial talent internally, as well.
