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Financial Advisor October 2008 Mary Rowland	Getting Very Personal George Kinder has developed a clear structure to help planners work with clients to uncover the true passion in their lives so that their financial plan will be more effective.
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Financial Planning February 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad	Bookshelf Financial planning Zen -- Lighting the Torch: The Kinder Method of Life Planning by George Kinder & Susan Galvan.
Financial Planning November 1, 2006 Marshall Eckblad	Advisor Pulse Financial planners are working hard to meet the needs of their retiring clients. But according to a recent survey, they might be doing so at their own expense.
Financial Advisor December 2010 Mary Rowland	Retreating To Move Forward George Kinder's five-day workshop teaches planners how to achieve the things closest to their hearts, and helps them teach clients in turn.
Financial Advisor September 2011 Mary Rowland	Second Chapter Why I chose life planning as my new career.
Investment Advisor July 2007 Olivia Mellan	Therapeutic Finance Once, finance was finance and psychotherapy was psychotherapy. That's different now -- to the benefit of many financial advisors and their clients.
Financial Advisor February 2007 Mary Rowland	Resolutions For 2007 Ideas for 2007 that you may have neglected to put on your list: Bringing balance to your life... Becoming a better financial planner and a better person... etc.
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Marshall Eckblad	The Retirement Puzzle Serving retirees might be a lot less profitable than most financial planners imagine. There are certainly opportunities in catering to this wealthy crowd, but only if you know where to look.
Financial Planning January 1, 2005	Movers & Shakers 2005 Who is showing the way in the financial planning profession? Here are nine leaders, as determined by votes from readers, judges, and editors of Financial Planning. Guy Cumbie... Roy Diliberto... Elizabeth Jetton... etc.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Robert F. Keane	Far From Retired Tony Purpero thought he was headed into retirement when he returned to southern California, but instead finds himself working harder than ever to help other current and future retirees.
Financial Advisor October 2010 Mary Rowland	Quietly Contrary Some advisors find success by scorning conventional wisdom about size, growth and clientele.
Financial Advisor June 2005 Roy Diliberto & Mitch Anthony	A Practice You Can Live With Don't let your financial advisory business become your master.
Investment Advisor March 2006 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: Glory Days Financial planners need to decide whether they want stardom or the benefits of a growing firm.
Investment Advisor August 2007 Angela Herbers	Dream Teams Successful advisory firms make room for solid performers as well as superstars. As a manager of human resources, firm owners need to understand that their personal definition of success is not going to be everyone's definition.
Investment Advisor November 2006 Bob Clark	Name Game Advisors who want to benefit from the more favorable economics of working with fewer -- but higher net worth -- clients will increasingly need to position themselves as investment managers or wealth managers.
Financial Advisor November 2009 David Lawrence	Different Light Two recent conferences look at economic pressures on advisors, but from different perspectives.
Financial Planning October 1, 2006 Suzanne McGee	Rethinking Retirement Income Helping your financial planning clients to keep sitting pretty in retirement is more complex than ever. How will your practice adapt?
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Donna Mitchell	Staffing: The Next Generation Early in the life cycle of a financial planning firm, once it grows beyond a few seasoned principals, comes the day you hire your first new young associate planner. It's an important step for your firm, and for the profession.
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Financial Planning August 1, 2012	Women Advisors Forum/Boston: Sharing Strategies Women planners are changing the face of the financial services industry.
Financial Advisor February 2009 David J. Drucker	Who's Got Middle America's Back? Middle-class citizens have usually come second in the financial services world. Is that finally changing?
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Roger Verboon	Succession Planning: Moving on Advisors excel at helping clients plan for the different stages of their lives. But when it comes to planning for stages of their own business lives-particularly the last one-many fail to take their own advice.
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Michael F. Kay	Beyond Numbers At my firm, we use financial life planning tools as part of our process, and we take the time to understand the client's past, present and future goals for life transitions and retirement.
Financial Planning January 1, 2009 Stacy Schultz	Serving Their Own Financial planners spend much of their time preparing members of the 78 million-strong baby boom generation to retire in the coming decade or two. But many of them overlook the fact that the majority of planners are boomers themselves and are seeking to exit the business.
Financial Planning July 1, 2012 Janice Fioravante	Secrets and Lies Advisors' burdens often center on the deceptions, frauds and blunders wrought by their own clients.
Financial Advisor January 2011 Bill Bachrach	Why You Are Lucky This may be the perfect time to reflect on the financial advisory business and how to maximize your intrinsic value.
Financial Planning September 1, 2008	Looking at the Future Foretelling the future has never been the role of the financial planner. But while no one can predict when the market will return to bull territory, there are some things planners do know and must prepare for.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 David A. Geracioti	Outgrowing the Series 7? Registered investment advisors must take the Series 65 exam. As the line between brokers and financial advisors blurs, what responsibilities do brokers that dispense advice and collect a fee based on assets have?
Financial Advisor March 2007 Lee Eisenberg	Saints In Shoulder Pads Many people don't seem fundamentally inspired by the retirement life they imagine for themselves. It just might take a financial advisor who doubles as a creative writing teacher to help clients get over their Inspiration Deficit Disorder.
Financial Advisor November 2006 Tracey Longo	Is The Price Right? When it comes to pricing, many financial advisors are nowhere near as efficient and profitable as they could be.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2010 Dayana Yochim	Why Bernie Madoff Deserves Your Thanks If nothing else, his shenanigans made us smarter consumers. If you weren't wary of the advice you bought before, you sure are now.
Investment Advisor February 2008 James J. Green	Visionary George Kinder, financial planner and Buddhist teacher, discusses how life planning and financial planning can come together, fostering a client's economic and spiritual well-being.
Investment Advisor September 2009	The Three Questions The signature exercise that Kinder's Institute of Life Planning conducts at its workshops to help an individual discover what's most important to them is to ask themselves the three questions. Advisors would do well by asking clients the same.
Investment Advisor November 16, 2010 Olivia Mellan	Future Imperfect Six pioneering advisors and observers present a likely view of the essentially unknowable. I asked several well-respected thinkers and planners about the most significant challenges that financial advisors will face.
Financial Planning November 1, 2007 Kathy Gevlin	How Is Your Business? Having survived bubbles, busts and bouts of irrational market behavior, the best financial planners are now feeling very rationally exuberant.
Financial Planning August 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad	Advisor Pulse If a new survey is to be believed, advisors who help their clients with retirement planning -- and that's most of you -- will soon face a difficult choice: Change the way you service clients or watch your profits shrink.
Financial Advisor April 2005 David J. Drucker	Moving On How financial advisory firms are dealing with planners who leave, and take clients with them.
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Financial Advisor September 2007 Bruce W. Fraser	The Back-To-Nature Boomers Advisors help clients make their rural dreams a reality -- and sometimes their own.
Registered Rep. March 30, 2011 Matt Matrisian	Bridging the Succession-Planning Gap Too many advisors need help planning their financial futures. Today, only about 18 percent of independent advisors have a well-defined business succession plan that is ready to implement.
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Investment Advisor October 2009 Lewis Schiff	The Affluentialist: Beyond the Numbers The more intricate the financial and personal lives of clients, the more likely clients will ask for non-financial advice.
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Registered Rep. November 1, 2002 Ruth Halcomb	When Affluenza Strikes It can be every advisor's dream. But for those unprepared, it can become a nightmare. Lesson No. 1: The nouveau riche aren't like you or me. Emotions can run high as erstwhile family members and charities look for a chunk of their money; truly, handholding can become a huge part of your job.