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Summary: This was before my time, but they tell me that cold calling was once a very effective marketing strategy — until, of course, it wasn’t. I remember when advisory firms routinely attracted dozens and sometimes hundreds of prospects to cheesy prepackaged seminars, until attendance gradually began to slip away.
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Summary: The latest research from InvestmentNews finds that offering a robo-advice platform may not be right for all advisory firms, but all firms can learn how to harness technology to offer innovative service.
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Summary: In my first year as an adviser, I looked past social media and the internet to tear through the networking circuit with reckless abandon. Night in and night out, I would attend networking functions, typically sponsored by a local chamber of commerce. Attendees would show up to mix and mingle, with the main goal of handing out and collecting as many business cards as possible.
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Summary: An ex-Merrill Lynch adviser opened a new RIA under Dynasty Financial Partners in the fifth new firm launched through Dynasty’s outsourcing platform this year.Avestar Capital will focus, in part, on cross-border wealth planning, particularly clients with inheritances or investments in both the U.S. and India.
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Summary: Money is a prickly topic so channeling your inner porcupine, leaving people hanging by the receptionists desk and delivering monologues about smart-beta is dumb
