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Summary: Most financial advisers started their firm because they had a dream for a different life and a vision of how to get there. They're passionate, ambitious and committed to building their new venture.
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Summary: Managing wealth today is increasingly about getting the best from human interactions and technology — and getting this mix right is both the challenge and opportunity that the industry faces next year.
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Summary: Technology is a necessity in the modern financial advice industry, and not staying ahead of it is essentially the same as ignoring it altogether.
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Summary: Pundits like to make fun of the tradition of New Year’s resolutions, pointing out all the failures to actually follow through on those resolutions. Yet Americans keep making them, year after year. According to the Statistic Brain Research Institute, 45% of us usually make resolutions, but only 8% succeed in following them.
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Summary: I admit it. I didn’t get it for a long time. There I was, working in-house at advisor firms, putting out RFPs to marketing agencies and consultants as part of my daily job responsibilities. The proposals would come back. I’d review them, cheerfully nodding at all the big promises, all the corporate happy talk.