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Financial Advisor March 2012 |
Keeping Up In An Evolving Space Scalability. Profit pressures. Self-directed investing. Increased use of mobile applications. These are some of the trends to watch in the financial advisor industry in coming months.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Jeff Schlegel |
Go South, Young Man There are opportunities for advisors with an entrepreneurial bent who are willing to go to underserved wealth markets and try to plant their flag in the turf.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 |
Wirehouses Still King Of The Hill Despite headlines about breakaway brokers and the ascendency of the independent, fee-based advisory model, the Big Four wirehouses are still holding their own.  |
Registered Rep. March 7, 2012 |
Due Diligence: Four Overlooked Havens of Wealth If you are looking for that golden land of wealth management opportunity, eFinancialCareers has done a little homework for you.  |
Financial Advisor July 2006 Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Climbing A Stairway To Heaven As boomers age and spend their savings, financial advisors will need to adapt their practices.  |
On Wall Street June 1, 2011 |
The Leaders Speak The most influential leaders in wealth management today expound on evolution, revolution, moving the debate past wirehouse versus independent, and more.  |
Investment Advisor August 2005 Melanie Waddell |
The Playing Field: Serving Mid-Tier Millionaires Mid-tier millionaires desperately want to reduce the complexity of managing their wealth and consolidate all of their financial needs under one roof. Can you help them?  |
Investment Advisor April 2009 Lewis Schiff |
Danger & Opportunity: Seling Wisdom Advisors with a wealth-management practice orientation can provide the kind of services affluent families need during difficult market times.  |
Investment Advisor October 2005 Melanie Waddell |
The Playing Field: Welcome to the Family Becoming a wealth manager is not quite as easy as it looks. But the mid-tier millionaires are underserved, so honing skills and capturing some of them as clients should be on every financial adviser's list.  |
Registered Rep. April 13, 2012 Kristen French |
Wells Fargo Wealth Management Business Posts Stagnant First Quarter Wells Fargo's wealth management business reported no growth in assets and a slight decline in advisors for the first quarter versus the same time period a year ago.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Bernie Clark |
The Changing Affluent Investor Advisors must prepare for new affluent clients and the changes, attitudes and expectations they will bring with them.  |
Financial Advisor January 2006 Tracey Longo |
Working Smarter, Not Harder As more independent broker-dealers set themselves up as strategic outsourcing partners, they are finding bigger and better firms driven to their door by stagnant or shrinking profit margins and the accelerating compliance melee.  |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Not So Fast Cerulli Associates data suggests there may be fewer wirehouse brokers breaking away.  |
On Wall Street March 1, 2012 Lorie Konish |
Go,Teams! When Hilliard Lyons introduced its current team-based award program in its compensation program five years ago, it led to what Executive Vice President Darryl Metzger now calls an "A-HA" moment for the firm.  |
On Wall Street September 1, 2010 Howard J. Stock |
Talent Shortage Grips Firms As Financial Advisors Age After years of recruiting only established, top advisors in the so-called "war for talent" instead of hiring younger employees and training them, the industry is now facing a shortage.  |
Registered Rep. December 21, 2012 Megan Leonhardt |
Looking Back, 2012 A Mixed Bag For Wirehouses Assets mostly were up, but advisors are on the move.  |
Financial Advisor November 2009 |
Frontline News Advisor News: Poll on advisor pay... Citi Embracing Fee-Only Model... RIAs Set Record For Repurchasing Their Firms... FINRA Expands Arbitration Pilot Program... SEC Expects To Examine 9% Of RIAs Annually... more...  |
Registered Rep. June 1, 2006 Kristen French |
The Wealth Management Quest Are you really a wealth manager? Do you know what the phrase really means? It pays to know, because a new compensation report shows only 8% of advisors -- across all business channels -- actually fit the bill.  |
Registered Rep. November 6, 2012 John Aidan Byrne |
DIY Platforms Are Gaining the Mass Affluent Pressure to serve only the wealthiest, wirehouses are ceding the mass affluent to the independent, DIY brokerage platforms. Indeed, "direct" brokerages are beginning to offer more advice.  |
On Wall Street February 1, 2011 Lorie Konish |
Will Advisors' Game Of Musical Chairs End Soon? The market crisis that began several years prompted a frantic game of musical chairs as firms and advisors sought their most competitive matches.  |
Financial Advisor April 2005 Tracey Longo |
How Boomers Will Change Your Firm What will your financial advisory firm look like in 2015? With about 75 million baby boomers retiring, different than than it does now.  |
Registered Rep. February 25, 2011 Diana Britton |
Financial Advisors Must Prepare For Coming Retirement Advice Boom As Baby Boomers retire, and switch gears from asset accumulation to asset distribution, advisors are going to have to become more sophisticated and efficient in their delivery of financial advice  |
Registered Rep. July 8, 2015 Jerry Gleeson |
No Slowing RIA Growth In the financial advisory industry there are potential regulatory burdens, fickle investors, and crafty competitors -- but nothing has changed the relentless march of the registered investment advisor space since the 2008 crash.  |
Financial Advisor July 2005 Raymond Fazzi |
Defining Wealth Management The term "wealth manager" has provided more sizzle than clarity in recent years, as more and more advisors have adopted the name as they transition to more comprehensive practices geared toward affluent clients.  |
Registered Rep. July 26, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
Online Brokerages Still Grabbing Market Share From Wirehouses Online brokerages continue to take market share from the wirehouses, according to a new report.  |
Registered Rep. September 30, 2013 Megan Leonhardt |
Wirehouse Evolution Far from a dying model, the big brokerages are changing their game.  |
Registered Rep. May 27, 2015 Megan Leonhardt |
Can Deferred Pay Buy Long-Term Loyalty? With the level of retention deals falling, firms are turning more to deferred compensation as a means to keep advisors in their seats. But is it a short-sighted solution?  |
Financial Advisor August 2007 Tracey Longo |
A World For Advisors Broker-dealers across the country are reporting record revenue increases -- a significant portion of these from fee-based business -- and say they're continuing to step up their game in order to recruit advisors with significant practices.  |
On Wall Street June 1, 2013 Braswell & Konish |
Leaders: Ranking the Top Wirehouses and Regional Broker-Dealers This year, the leading wirehouse and regional wealth management firms took the steps necessary to ensure they reap rewards as markets hit new highs.  |
Financial Planning April 1, 2007 Kathy Gevlin |
How Are You Doing? If you were to take a step back right now and ask yourself how well your financial advisory practice was meeting your objectives, what would your answer be? What are the successful ones doing right? Consider the following questions.  |
Registered Rep. November 4, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
Rep-as-Portfolio Manager Programs Taking Off Despite the compliance hurdles, more than one third of financial advisors see direct handling of clients' assets by FAs acting as their portfolio managers clearly outpacing other fee-based management styles in the next three years.  |
On Wall Street June 1, 2009 Helen Kearney |
Big Name Boutiques Flex Their Muscles For those wirehouse advisors who want something new, but don't quite have the nerve to go independent, these elite boutiques look mighty attractive.  |
Financial Advisor June 2007 Raymond Fazzi |
Follow The Money Broker-dealers sum up the future of advisory services in two words: rich folks.  |
Investment Advisor July 2010 Ray Sclafani |
The High-Performance Coach: The Five Myths of Professional Networks Why you need professional advocates.  |
Financial Advisor August 2006 Hannah Shaw Grove |
Life Insurance And Wealth Management Helping client with life insurance is an important service of effective wealth managers.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Eric Rasmussen |
Swimming In Shallow Water Broker-dealers face a stagnant rep pool, shrinking margins and the choke hold of regulators. But it's been a boon to the biggest consolidators.  |
Financial Planning October 1, 2012 John J. Bowen, Jr. |
Elite Advisors' Best Practices: What Makes for a Successful Planner How do the best financial planners become successful? Developing a vision and a plan for your business takes focus, collaboration and consistency. And it s how the best performers enhance their success.  |
Financial Advisor June 2008 Tracey Longo |
Swimming Upstream California investment advisor John Threlkeld has been working diligently to serve wealthier and wealthier investors, even purchasing two other advisors' practices and turning all but his top clients over to a junior planner.  |
Financial Planning April 1, 2013 John J. Bowen, Jr. |
5 Success Tips From High-Performing Advisors A new study of high-earning advisors offers 5 clear success tips.  |
Financial Advisor October 2011 |
Frontline News Independent Advisors On The Rise... Uncertain Times For BofA Advisors... Gen Y Good Target For Advisors... etc.  |
Financial Advisor March 2004 Grove & Prince |
Thinking And Acting Like A Wealth Manager It's the difference between offering products and providing solutions.  |
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005 |
13 Percent Percentage of advisors who say they have switched to a wealth management model.  |
Financial Planning June 1, 2013 Ann Marsh |
FP50: Big IBDs Hit a Speed Bump Is the boom over? After years of double-digit growth, independent broker-dealers hit a rough patch in 2012. We report from the front lines of the FP50.  |
Financial Planning January 1, 2011 Jonathan Beatty |
Joining Forces Does your firm have the human resources infrastructure to recruit and integrate a new advisor or team of advisors?  |
Financial Advisor January 2004 Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Custodians Are Knocking More custody players have been clamoring for the business of registered investment advisors, and that trend will continue this year, say two well-known research firms for financial institutions and investment managers.  |
On Wall Street March 1, 2013 Braswell & Konish |
Compensation Plans Step Up to Next Level Compensation plans for 2013 come with new incentives for advisors to strive for growth.  |
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 John J. Bowen Jr. |
Getting the Right Help Financial services firms aren't doing enough to support the transition to wealth management.  |
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Grove & Prince |
Theory to Practice For many advisors, the evolution to wealth manager remains a matter of theory, not practice. Sure, they're calling themselves wealth managers, but they're still behaving like financial advisors.  |
Financial Advisor January 2009 Rebecca Pomering |
Turning Turbulence Into Growth Turmoil is creating big opportunities.  |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2006 John Churchill |
More, More, More Faced with growing competition from other advice providers and fewer inherent advantages in the way of products and platform capabilities, wirehouse brokers will feel pressure to do more fee-based business and to make wealthier clients a bigger part of their practice.  |