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Advisors Vow to Communicate Better Next Year

Added on December 2014 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Every December, SEI polls a few hundred financial advisors on their New Year’s resolutions. Unfortunately, because it’s a multiple-choice survey, the results tend to look pretty much the same from year to year — with most respondents saying their No. 1 goal is to get more referrals. So we called a handful of our favorite sources and asked them to tell us in their own words what they want to do differently beginning in January.

Advisors: How Not to Get Fired

Added on December 2014 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: If you want insight into how wealthy investors think — and how to keep them as clients — it would be hard to find a more informed source than Charlotte Beyer.

Using mobile technology to take client relations to another level

Added on December 2014 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Mobile technology is transforming registered investment adviser practices as well as the nature of the adviser/client relationship. But to experience the full range of benefits that mobile applications provide, advisers need to change the way they think of mobility.

The Year of Financial Advisor Transformation

Added on December 2014 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: For advisors to capture more affluent business and demonstrate their value beyond performance, they’ll have to transform their business. Here are four steps to making 2015 the year of Financial Advisor Transformation.

Age No Impediment to a Successful Succession Plan

Added on December 2014 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: A 32-year age gap exists between the founder and outgoing CEO of an RIA firm and his successor. The story of this firm's succession plan began when the firm (with $1.4 billion in AUM) received an acquisition offer by a larger firm in another city. The offer was rejected, but it served as a catalyst for an honest discussion of “where do we go from here?”

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