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Banks See Wealth Management New Cash Cow
From wealthmanagement.com
Added on March 2014 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Expect banks to become bigger players in the wealth management space. According to a new study by Fidelity, over half of bank executives expect to grow their revenue from wealth management practices by 25 percent in the next five years. After dealing with the financial meltdown and the effects of regulatory change, banks are now looking for new revenue opportunities, with a particular interest in fee-based business, according to the Fidelity Bank Wealth Management Study.
Prepare to be patient if you aim to serve wealthy business owners
From InvestmentNews
Added on March 2014 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: The nation's business owners are an affluent bunch and they require a broad swath of services from a financial adviser — but the potential pay-off to advisers may be many years down the road. About one-third of the nation's wealthy investors, those who have $1.5 million or more to invest, are business owners, and that proportion jumps dramatically as wealth level rises, a new study finds.
4 New Advisor Tech Trends
From Financial Planning
Added on March 2014 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: For advisors, technological change can seem both lightning fast and very slow. As Victor Fetter, LPL Financial’s chief information officer, pointed out in his keynote session at February’s Technology Tools for Today conference, the broad technology themes for advisors — the cloud, mobile, social tools and business intelligence — are largely unchanged from a year ago. In fact, almost every session or product announcement at the conference was in some way tied to one of those themes.
Working With Widows
From Think Advisor
Added on March 2014 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: She's working hard to help more advisors bridge the gap. The author of “Moving Forward on Your Own: A Financial Guidebook for Widows,” Rehl has been a financial advisor for 17 years and is a widow herself. Now the president of Rehl WEALTH Collaborations LLC in Land O’Lakes, Fla., she has relinquished her RIA hat to focus on assisting widows and their advisors. In view of this client segment's growing importance, I recently asked her what advisors need to know to serve widows better.
Voices: Doug Stewart, on a Checklist for Advisers Moving to New Firms
From Wall Street Journal
Added on March 2014 in Join an RIA
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Summary: For an adviser to make a transition to a new firm takes considerable work. Not surprisingly, most of that work has to be done well in advance of the transition, beginning with an open dialogue with the recruiting firm about their expectations and the resources that are going to be available to you. Before either of you make any sort of commitment, you want to make sure that you know exactly what you're entering into together.
