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RIA Edge Podcast: It’s a Bull Market for Advice. But Is it a Bull Market for Advisors?RIA Edge Podcast: It’s a Bull Market for Advice. But Is it a Bull Market for Advisors?

Steve Sanduski discusses how advisors can accelerate the growth of their businesses.

Mark Bruno, Managing Director, Wealth Management

June 6, 2023

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While the need for financial advice – and the ability to access advice – has never been greater, most advisors still have not been able to capitalize on the growing number of opportunities. 

According to Steve Sanduski, advisor coach, CFP, New York Times best-selling author and founder of the Sanduski Advisor Network, suggests that while it’s a bull market for advice, it has not been a bull market for financial advisors. In this episode of the RIA Edge podcast, Steve and Mark Bruno, managing director of Wealth Management for Informa Connect, discuss how advisors can accelerate the growth of their businesses, specifically:

  • How advisors can adopt the right mindset and framework for thinking about growth

  • How advisors can kickstart true organic growth strategies

  • How AI, generational change and other factors will force advisors to revamp their business models/strategies to be competitive as we complete the waning years of the last baby boomers turning 65.

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About Our Guest:

Steve Sanduski has 35-plus years of business experience includes:

  • Working in Silicon Valley for Hewlett-Packard pre-internet days.

  • Helping start a RIA that grew from $0 to $1.8 billion in AUM during my six years at the firm.

  • Running Peak Advisor Alliance (now Carson Group Coaching) for 11 years as the Managing Partner as it grew from 0 to 1,000 financial advisor coaching clients.

  • The co-founder and CEO of ROL Advisor, a digital tools and training company that serves hundreds of financial advisors in 11 countries.

On top of that, he’s been A CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ licensee since 1996, a New York Times Bestselling author, and currently hosts four popular podcasts with more than 700 published episodes.

Over the decades he has realized that his flow state is really a “Flow Wheel.” It’s the virtuous cycle of Learning, Translating, and Inspiring people to live a meaningful and financially sufficient life.

In practice, that means he’s a curious, voracious learner and doer who translates what he learns so he can inspire others through coaching, group training and tools, and his podcasts, books, and blogs.

 

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About the Author

Mark Bruno

Managing Director, Wealth Management, Informa Connect

Mark Bruno is Managing Director, Wealth Management at Informa Connect. In his role, Mr. Bruno leads the company’s Wealth Management media and event properties, which currently consists of WealthManagement.com, Inside ETFs and Inside WealthStack. He is also charged with driving several innovative new community and advisor-based initiatives, including the launch of the new RIA Edge podcast, event and webcast series.

In addition, Mr. Bruno is overseeing strategic partnerships and acquisitions to accelerate Informa’s growth within the financial advisor and wealth management communities. Mr. Bruno brings over 20 years of experience in the wealth management and asset management industries to Informa, including prominent leadership roles in industry media, research, and consulting organizations.

Before joining Informa Connect, Mr. Bruno was a Managing Director at ECHELON Partners, where he provided investment banking, consulting and valuation services to wealth managers. Mr. Bruno specialized in helping RIAs with a range of strategic initiatives, and his areas of expertise include organizational design and assessments, compensation consulting and succession and continuity solutions.

Prior to joining ECHELON, Mr. Bruno was the Managing Director and Associate Publisher at InvestmentNews, where he was responsible for overseeing a wide range of businesses, including IN’s research, content strategy, digital, custom publishing and sales groups. Mr. Bruno was with InvestmentNews for 12 years and helped establish the company as the leading B2B media brand in the wealth management industry. He played an integral role in the sale of InvestmentNews from Crain Communication to Bonhill Plc in 2018.

Mr. Bruno is an award-winning journalist, author and researcher who has written and edited for a number of financial publications over the past two decades, including InvestmentNews, Financial Week, Pensions & Investments and U.S. Banker. Mr. Bruno has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and the Chicago Tribune for his expertise in wealth and investment management. Mr. Bruno has received numerous accolades for his writing and reporting, including the American Business Media's prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award, and for his breaking news coverage and analysis of the financial services industry by The Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Mr. Bruno is the author of Save Now or Die Trying: Achieving Long-Term Wealth In Your 20s and 30s, one of the top-selling retirement planning books of 2007.