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Emerging issues affecting financial advice

Added on August 2017 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Management guru Peter Drucker once described predicting the future as driving down a country road at night with no lights on while looking out the rear window. Admittedly, no one can precisely predict how advisers and firms will work too far down the road. Nevertheless, several forces in the larger economy and society evident today are shaping the future of advice in key ways. Here are three examples coming our way, and their possible impact on the provision of financial advice.

Performance Coach Tells Advisors How to Get in the Zone

Added on August 2017 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary:The market has been booming, so clients can’t complain. But how come advisors are feeling flat and frustrated? Negative thoughts plague them — indeed paralyze many — preventing them from even trying to invigorate their businesses.

Automation: An effective way to enhance marketing success

Added on August 2017 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Advisers today are busy. While having to manage a large book of client accounts, they also need to develop effective ways to drive new business. To do this, they may want to create and deliver content designed to educate investors and promote their services. Unfortunately, even when advisers have great content ideas and the best intentions to improve client communications, they don't have time to execute.

CFPs Lack Clarity on Board's New Standards, FPA Says

Added on August 2017 in Form an RIA
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Summary: While fiduciary advocates applaud the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards’ revised standards of conduct — specifically for expanding the scope of a CFP’s fiduciary duty and moving the industry toward a profession — they say the Board must clear up some ambiguities, and even seek more comments, before adopting the plan.

Corporate IAR vs Independent RIA… It's All About Choice.

Added on August 2017 in Join an RIA
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Summary: [Whitepaper] In today’s world of increased market volatility and ever-changing regulatory environment, the need for sound financial stewardship is in great demand. The “Hybrid” business model is gaining considerable traction in the independent space and the more nimble, forward-thinking Broker-Dealers are differentiated by offering unique and exciting solutions under which the hybrid practitioner and their clients can flourish.

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