Last week, The New York Times posted a story relating Apple‘s (AAPL) lackluster growth in the Chinese mobile phone market. In China, Apple is playing second fiddle to Samsung as consumers are demanding phones with larger screens at...
In 2010, FINRA amended Rule 8312 to require information concerning minor historic customer complaints be added to BrokerCheck records. Customer complaints that brokers had long since forgotten, which, in some instances, never resulted in...
LinkedIn has the ability to be an introduction powerhouse. Letting advisors see “who knows who” and having a business-centric culture – it’s perfect for advisors focused on relationship marketing. We know this...
Affluent investor research cites that cold calling, direct mail, and public seminars have minimal to no impact with today’s affluent. They don’t work. Whereas 83% of today’s affluent tell us that they met their...
In April 2012, FINRA released Regulatory Notice 12-18, which features the Authority's proposed overhaul of the broker expungement process. The overhaul applies primarily to brokers whom customers do not name as defendants to their...
The advisors we coach frequently ask us about finding business owners on LinkedIn. In this blog, I’ll show you three simple ways to find current business owners and those who have sold their business. The first two search tactics...
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was shared by behavioral economist Robert Shiller, efficient market proponent Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen, who occupies a sort of philosophical middle ground. The Nobel committee sent a strong...