The global financial crisis has changed the game for wealth managers, as clients battered by bad news shifted their assets to less volatile, low-margin investments, weakening performance, and cutting into asset-based fees, according to a report by...
If you are hungry for success, you are always asking yourself the question: What are the top advisors doing? With the market in disarray, and affluent investor confidence in the financial services industry dashed, this question has become even...
With asset-based fees providing less revenue, advisors are embracing a wider variety of pricing models these days. According to a Schwab presentation from this year's Impact conference called Pricing Practices in Evolving Ultra-Wealth Marketplace...
Over the last 10 years, if you had simply preserved your wealth, that would be considered achievement. But are these last 10 years unusual? A longer term perspective shows that actual real returns earned by investors, on average, have been pretty...
How much money did your clients lose last year? As has been well documented, investors lost trillions of dollars in 2008. It didn't have to be this way. You could have followed a simple, defensive investment approach that would have spared your...
As the psychologist and performance coach to countless financial advisors, the pressures of being actively engaged in other people's lives can certainly take its toll on me. So at the end of every summer, I take my wife out to Montauk on Long...
