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Dealing with Difficult Clients

Added on May 2018 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: The one universal experience in life is encountering difficult people. They are everywhere. For financial advisors, a client who is difficult is costly in a number of ways. They might be brusque and aggressive with your staff, not respond to your follow-ups and hence never get anything accomplished, not listen or be indifferent.

3 obstacles to succession planning — and how to overcome them

Added on May 2018 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: Only 37% of advisers have an adequate succession plan, according to a new FA Insight report on succession planning, a statistic that is little changed since 2011. What's holding advisers back, they say, are concerns that clients won't be cared for, that retirement is a long way off or that the planning process takes too long.

Join next week's webinar on 'How To Assess Yourself and Your Match to Ensure Success'

Added on May 2018 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Learn how to uncover your own strengths and values, and how they impact your decision-making and communication with a certified coach. Then, measure the strength of your alignment with your matches using the compatibility assessment tool and explore the implications in a joint facilitated session.

 

Women advisers driving revenue growth

Added on May 2018 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Even though women make up a small but growing percentage of financial professionals, their influence has the potential for a disproportionate impact on the overall financial planning industry.

Virtual reality in wealth management? It's happening

Added on May 2018 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: When Bill Martin recently donned a pair of virtual reality goggles at Fidelity Investments’ client advisory council meeting in Boston, he was skeptical about whether the technology would be of any use for financial advisors.

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