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Align Staff Incentive Pay With Realistic Goals

From Finacial Advisor IQ
Added on November 2013 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: That year-end bonus no longer motivating staffers as it once did? Maybe it’s time to revamp the compensation model, an Advisor Perspectives blog suggests.The blog acknowledges decades’ worth of research showing that employees find motivation in things other than compensation — “achievement, recognition, work that’s challenging and fulfilling, autonomy, and the opportunity to learn and progress,” for example.

 

7 Habits of Highly Successful Advisory Firms

From Financial Planning
Added on November 2013 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Call it the secret sauce, the black box or the hidden magic: What, exactly, do high-performing advisory firms do differently than their less successful peers? Fidelity Investments drew back the curtain last week, offering key insights from the firm’s latest RIA Benchmarking Study to a packed room of advisors attending Fidelity’s annual Inside Track NYC Conference.

Why You Shouldn't Name Your Firm After Yourself

From Finacial Advisor IQ
Added on November 2013 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: When veteran financial advisors Eric Clark and Cheryl Sherrard were trying to come up with a moniker for their new practice, they were determined to keep their names out of it. “We didn’t want the brand tied to anyone in the firm,” says Clark, president of 10-month-old Clearview Wealth Management, a practice in Charlotte, N.C., with about $52 million under management. “You have to think ahead 10 or 25 years, when the people now involved may be retired or even at other firms.”

Taking control of your future: scale, value and certainty

From aRIA, the alliance for RIAs
Added on October 2013 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Most advisors think about their future in terms of growing their business, working with clients to achieve great outcomes, developing employees and achieving work/life balance. aRIA had its second meeting in October 2012 and came up with a shared point of view of what each member is striving for in their business.

Advisor Headcount to Shrink Through 2017, Cerulli Predicts

From Financial Planning
Added on October 2013 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: The advisory industry will shed more than 25,000 financial planners over the next four years, down to just more than 280,000, according to research firm Cerulli Associates. It's bad news for the advisory industry overall, but there is some good news for RIAs.

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