What best practices can financial professionals use to market their practice and accelerate their business growth? We review multi-channel solutions that are gaining visibility today for wealth professionals, RIAs and more.
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You and your client will be happier if you are proactive. If this crisis is really an economic Pearl Harbor, as Warren Buffet says, both you and your clients need you to view the glass as half-full.
The aim of the LIG [Leadership, Innovation and Growth] program at GE was to embed growth in the DNA of our company, GE CEO Jeff Immelt says in an interview in the January 2009 issue of the Harvard Business Review. You will have to read the article...
For the past half-decade or more, financial advisors have been shifting from commissions to fees as they seek steadier revenue flows, pursue greater flexibility with client accounts and offer more planning services. And yet, for the industry...
If you promise yourself that you will make a powerful commitment to clients, rainmaking and self-discipline, you will come out ahead in 2009 in spite of the economic crisis.
As we all know, the Holy Grail for most advisors is the high-net-worth client. But Stacy Francis has a different idea. While Francis, who runs Francis Financial, a New York-based firm, serves some affluent families, she also focuses on decidedly...
In September, I wrote about a wealth management team I walked through the service-loyalty-revenue nexus drill. If you recall, this team was composed of three advisors (partners) who lost four affluent clients at a projected value of $1.2 million...
As head of Citigroup's Private Bank, John Longley has to pull off one of the more vexingly stubborn organizational challenges of the modern financial era: getting private bankers and financial advisors to cooperate and help one another, to work...