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Summary: Advisors who run their own firms need to stop thinking of themselves as practitioners who happen to be business owners and start seeing themselves as business owners who happen to be practitioners, says a new white paper from the SEI Advisor Network. The paper touts “independence, integration and intelligence” as steps to greatness.
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Summary: Wealth management firms seeking to grow by recruiting new advisors need to first develop a clear business strategy. That was the message industry consultant John Furey, principal of Advisor Growth Strategies, pounded home to advisors at Schwab Advisor Services' annual Impact conference on Monday.
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Summary: Many financial advisors join forces at some point, either with peers or with clients’ accountants and attorneys, to decide what’s best for those clients. And in any convocation of experts, disagreements are bound to arise. Advice firms can take steps to make sure healthy debate doesn’t sour into discord that could wind up endangering client relationships.
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Summary: Best-managed advisory firms are constantly innovating, revising their business plans and seeking to drive the next iteration of growth. What is different for advisory firms now is the pace of change is so fast that standing still is not an option – advisors may simply be lapped by the field!
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Summary: You don't have to be an industry veteran to achieve great things. A recent study discovers a select group of advisors who are enjoying significant success even though they're quite new to the industry. These advisors all had less than five years of experience when we surveyed them, but already had reached $50 million in assets under management - a milestone some advisors never achieve. We dug deeper to understand who these advisors are and how they accomplished such impressive results in such a short time. Here's what we learned.
