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Summary: In the advisory business, a couple of events typically cause a rush of exhilaration: landing a big new client and hiring a great new talent. While the loss of a client can create the opposite emotion—dejection—the loss of a key colleague has a way of bursting one's balloon completely, especially when that individual played an important role in your succession plan.
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Summary: According to a Fidelity Investments benchmarking study of registered investment adviser firms released this spring, RIAs this year are more likely to train staff on existing technology systems than buy new products. Fully 58% of RIA firms ranked training of staff on existing systems as the second biggest technology opportunity, according to the online survey of more than 500 firms conducted by Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services
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Summary: Bernie Clark and Walter Bettinger came to Naples, Fla. with reservations made at the Ritz-Carlton but no reservations about delivering a party-is-almost-over message to 160 RIA principals, mostly managing firms that control assets in the billions.The senior vice president and head of Schwab’s RIA custody unit and the chief executive of The Charles Schwab Corp. co-headed the annual EXPLORE convention with the tricky mission of alerting the company’s biggest clients that the game is changing but that the game plan is still a work in progress
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Summary: Financial advisers are much more effective when they are clear about what kind of client they want to serve. But instead of doing this, most advisers still target large asset pools, instead of specific types of clients. It is a problem
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Summary: With the average worker checking their email inbox around 30 times per hour, it’s no wonder we have time management issues in our daily lives. This is just one example of a distraction constantly vying for our attention! Here are three questions to ask yourself if time management is an issue.
