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Summary: Many advisors have built successful businesses by catering to the financial needs of baby boomers, but those clients are heading into retirement and switching their focus from accumulating assets to liquidating them. In order to keep their businesses vibrant, advisors need to prepare for what comes next and have a plan for replacing that lost revenue from managing that shrinking pool of assets.
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Summary: Over the past few weeks I’ve been discussing some new technology I’ve added and how it all integrates (see my April 13 post, Why You Must Invest in Good Technology). In this post, I’ll expand on this and reveal a few surprises I’ve had along the way.
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Summary: Cowles divides the financial conversation with clients into two parts, telling them that he is changing hats from financial planner to insurance broker.
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Summary: “Your talk made me uncomfortable,” confessed Terry, with a pained expression on his face, “I know what I need to do – I need to develop better relationships with the CPAs I’ve been targeting, but they’re swamped in the weeks leading up to April 15th
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Summary: Fidelity’s 2014 RIA Benchmarking Study found that RIA firms that have a formal marketing and business development plan; write and share internally and externally a shared corporate story; and have a clearly defined referral process outperform their advisory firm peers in client growth, AUM and revenue.
