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PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 25, 2011
With benefits, size matters

Employee benefits are an important factor in an advisory firm's annual expenses and set the tone for its ability to attract and retain prime hires.

RIAS SEP 25, 2011
Product aims to mitigate risk for RIAs

The MDE Group Inc., a $1.3 billion institutional wealth management firm, is making an official expansion into the registered investment adviser business with the launch of Risk 3.0 Asset Management

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 25, 2011
Advisers who discount services lose out, study shows

Financial advisers who cut their commissions when the market turned down shot themselves in the foot, according to a new study from PriceMetrix Inc., a firm that provides practice management software to 15,000 retail wealth managers

FINTECH SEP 23, 2011
Scouting report: Finding pro athletes

Dwindling trading volumes zapping B-Ds: IN's Kelly
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 21, 2011
Dwindling trading volumes zapping B-Ds: IN's Kelly

Harder to make transaction fees without transactions

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 20, 2011
How to keep a client's widow from dumping you

The odds are against advisers, but it's not impossible to retain female clients after their spouses die

WOMEN ADVISOR COMMUNITY SEP 20, 2011
'This is not an easy industry for women'

Sherri Stephens remembers the first investment conference that she attended at Raymond James Financial Inc., when she was in her early 20s

Advisers, self-awareness now available online
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 20, 2011
Advisers, self-awareness now available online

Invesco offers free survey that gauges client's perception of financial advisers' strengths, weaknesses

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 20, 2011
Hand off most day-to-day action and put effort into prospecting

In essence, an investment advisory firm is much like any other retail enterprise. Keep the customers happy and profits will follow.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 19, 2011
Take your practice to the max

Building a profitable advisory practice requires a lot of planning and plenty of teamwork. But some advisers still think that if they concentrate on doing a good job for their clients, profits will take care of themselves. They're mistaken.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 18, 2011
When choosing roles, play to the strengths of execs

For Armond Dinverno, co-chief executive of Balasa Dinverno Foltz LLC, becoming the firm's primary number cruncher was just a matter of playing to his strengths — a credo he's stuck to as he manages the firm's day-to-day business.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 18, 2011
Comprehensive financial planning need not mean micromanagement

For most of the 17 years since co-founding The Financial Network Group Ltd., Nathan Bachrach has been focused on what most leaders of small businesses typically are: everything.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 18, 2011
Add assets but keep costs down by using model investment portfolios

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 18, 2011
Branch out from initial client base and find new avenues for business

After about 15 years in the investment advice business, Malcolm A. Makin knew, more than ever, that his practice had to evolve in order to remain profitable.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 18, 2011
Five ways to boost your bottom line

Building a successful practice is a marathon, not a sprint, and eventually, every runner hits the wall. When that happens, you have to change things up a bit to get back up to speed.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 18, 2011
Advisers: How to make your bottom line a top priority

Cheryl Holland didn't worry about the bottom line during the first 10 years at her financial advisory firm, Abacus Planning Group Inc.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 18, 2011
<font color=red>FPA Convention</font> At $13.50 an hour, interns a real bargain

Firms increasingly turning to wannabes to help free up time for advisers; 'a value proposition'

FINTECH SEP 16, 2011
AIG's Advisor Group to roll out revised platform

Advisor Group — the independent-broker-dealer business of American International Group Inc. — tomorrow is unveiling a re-engineered second generation of its technology platform, now to be called Vision 2020 Wealth Management

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 16, 2011
How financial advisers can prove the value of their fees

The financial crisis has shaken client confidence in markets and in financial advice professionals all around the world

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SEP 14, 2011
Big gap between what advisers do – and what clients think they do

Survey reveals advisers strive to keep a cool head during turbulent times; clients just want them to cover their assets