Generating Positive Media Coverage: Easy Steps to Boosting Your Media Presence—and Your Credibility
Jun 01, 2011
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Comings & Goings: June 2011
Jun 01, 2011
First Allied Securities, an IBD, has hired Yanni Bousnakis as managing director of investment management and Keith Mistretta as senior vice president of business development. Bousnakis, who'll head up the company's Guided Portfolio...
Smaller RIA Buyers Gather Steam
Smaller RIA Buyers Gather Steam
Jun 01, 2011
Buyers of RIAs are increasingly other RIAs, instead of larger roll-up operations that once were prominent players in M&A activity, according to Real Deals 2010, a report by Pershing Advisor Solutions and FA Insight.
June 1, 2011
May 31, 2011
Wealth Management Business Booming, but Pricing Practices Questioned
May 31, 2011
The global wealth management business has climbed to record highs, but pricing continues to be an Achilles ’ heel for the industry, according to a widely anticipated new study from The Boston Consulting Group released yesterday (Tuesday, May...
Talking to Clients About a Move
Talking to Clients About a Move
May 31, 2011
Once you’ve decided you are moving and have selected a new firm, your focus will naturally turn to your clients. Will they agree to follow you to your new digs? Which ones do you want to come with you? How should you tell them about your...
FAA Reorganizes Senior Execs to Focus on Recruiting
FAA Reorganizes Senior Execs to Focus on Recruiting
May 27, 2011
Independent broker/dealer Financial Advisers of America has reorganized its senior management to support the firm’s growth and allow senior executives to focus on recruiting advisors. The firm’s former CEO Ken Johnston is now chairman...
Gift Tax Exemption Jumps, But Not Everyone’s Feeling Generous
May 27, 2011
It’s an opportunity that ultra-high-net-worth households in the United States have never seen before—the chance to give away up to $5 million over the course of their lives, tax-free. Yet a good number of them are passing it up, some...
Take a Vacation Without Losing Clients—or Your Head
Take a Vacation Without Losing Clients—or Your Head
May 27, 2011
Not long ago, Chad Nehring did something he hadn’t done for 12 years: He took a real vacation. Although Nehring runs his Appleton, Wis.-based practice, Conceptual Financial Planning, with a partner, he bears most of the responsibility for...
Coming Into Money: Advisors Should Anchor Clients
Coming Into Money: Advisors Should Anchor Clients
May 26, 2011
Clients that have just come into new money—bequests, lottery jackpots, lawsuit settlements, among others—can provide a challenge for financial planners, but it’s up to advisors to anchor these clients and keep them stable, said...
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