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Summary: In 2017, planners overseeing roughly $40 billion in client assets moved to RIAs or IBDs, seeking greater flexibility and freedom to structure their practices as they saw fit. But generally, that freedom offers fewer benefits — including those that might be particularly attractive to younger advisors thinking of building families.
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Summary: Without question, China is one of the most successful countries at negotiating business deals. Jeff Moon’s July 17 Wall Street Journal article, “The President Turns the Tables on China,” lays out what has made China so successful when negotiating with foreign companies wanting to make inroads into their country.
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Summary: A financial advisory practice is a business and you have to make sure you can handle growth in a scalable manner, but just because your practice has just the right number of clients now doesn’t mean you can write off marketing.
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Summary: Cerulli Associates, a leading financial services market research firm, projects that more than one-third (35 percent) of financial advisors will retire in the next 10 years. In its wake, the next generation of advisors will inherit roughly $6 trillion of advisor-managed assets.
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Summary: If you’re following baseball this summer, you’re likely to hear talk about exit velocity. That’s the measurement of a baseball’s speed as it comes off the bat, right after the batter makes contact. Attaining a higher than average exit velocity is a primary goal for batters because heavy hitters have a better chance of reaching base.
