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Summary: Financial advisors have a difficult job: keeping up with the markets, following ever-changing regulations, growing their business, protecting clients’ assets, and sometimes even protecting clients from themselves when a market drop or hot new investment trend makes a bad idea look good.
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Summary: "Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?” — an inversion of Ben Franklin's virtuous commandment — is apt for continuity and succession planning. But it won't hold water as an excuse when regulators come knocking.
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Summary: Advisors often start a new year with the best intentions. They set goals such as, "I want to increase my personal income by 25%," or "I want to add 10 new $1 million accounts."But, surprise! Midway through the year, they lose interest. The New Year's goals become an afterthought as the day-to-day stuff gets in the way.
Sound familiar?
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Summary: The veteran advisor who has built a billion-dollar wealth management firm says there’s one troubling issue he and his owner-advisor peers share. While the next generation of advisors has many great skills, it doesn’t know how to sell. The firm run by this advisor is an SEC-registered, proudly fee-only RIA firm. “Fee-only” and “sales” are rarely uttered in the same sentence, but his point is well-made. All advisors are salespeople, even if the only “thing” they’re selling is their firm.
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Summary: Experience tells us that bullish stock markets will inevitably turn bearish: often, dramatically. Our Nov. 24 blog—“Buying High and Selling Low: Are you ready for the next downturn?”—suggested that the damage to independent advisory firms from failing to be prepared for the next down market almost always outweighs any growth gained during the tail end of a run up.
