Breaking up is hard to do. And it's even harder for financial advisors who feel the need to cut ties with an active client. As any advisor will quickly admit, it’s not easy landing a new client. Most ...

Rick Kent is the CEO of one of the fastest growing RIAs in the industry. Since launching his career in wealth management in 1998, he said he has approached the industry as an entrepreneur. At the helm ...

Albert Einstein once said: "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." As I discussed last month, the better we are at defining the real problems faced by our ...

An accounting business in Orange County, California found that clients (and their own team) were increasingly frustrated due to inconsistent communication and business processes. Deadlines were being ...

Independent financial advisors bill themselves as offering a more personal touch to managing a client's money. By acting as a fiduciary and taking a "holistic" view of long-term goals like paying for ...

Wells Fargo advisor Jeff Germain sees himself and his team as problem solvers. When clients call, Germain and his team spring into action. They work overtime to soothe frayed nerves and fix what is ...

The legal profession rewards endurance, precision and control. It also quietly normalizes stress, isolation and overextension ...

Merrill Lynch financial advisor Jason A. Halliburton HAL views himself as something more than a dispenser of wealth management advice. “I am a relationship builder. I like to unite people,” he says.

With predictions of an uptick in M&A activity in 2023, and growth-oriented firms looking to expand into additional areas of meaningful advisory services, now is an opportune time to reinforce the need ...

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Many advisors mistakenly think that managing workplace retirement accounts requires becoming the “representative of record”—or the “plan advisor”—for the entire plan. Others resist citing a litany of ...