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Summary: If you’re in the minority and exactly on track to realize your vision, then congratulations – it’s no small feat. If you’re in the majority then I’d suggest, humbly, that you need to look at your business planning very differently this year. Rather than thinking about incremental growth, I’d encourage you to think about your vision and the steps you need to take toward more transformative change.
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Summary: Vanguard founder John Bogle said in a New York Times op-ed piece today that annulling the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule “would clearly be a setback for investors trying to prepare for retirement.”
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Summary: Planners say they expect to see increases in revenue and client assets in 2017, according to the latest TD Ameritrade Institutional RIA Sentiment Survey. Accordingly, they plan to rev up spending on marketing, business development and technologies such as electronic signatures, the survey revealed. Also in the works: initiatives like more networking to attract a new generation of clients.
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Summary: RIAs are missing out big time on a $5 trillion dollar market, according to Skip Schweiss, managing director of advisor advocacy for TD Ameritrade Institutional.
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Summary: Elite advisory firms distinguish themselves in many nuanced ways. But there appear to be three big areas in which the top-performing advisory firms (leading firms) have made the right decisions that helped them truly stand out: human capital management, technology implementation and profitable pricing.