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#FASuccess Ep 425: Implementing A Financial Planning Quality Control System To Improve Both Client Outcomes And Referrals, With Sebastian Guerra

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Sebastian is the President of Guerra Wealth Advisors, a hybrid advisory firm based in Miami, Florida, with nearly $15M of revenue and almost 60 team members, supporting over 1,700 client households.

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Outsourcing (Parts Of) The Financial Plan Preparation Process To Boost Solo Advisor Capacity

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a client service associate to handle various administrative and client communication tasks, or a paraplanner or associate advisor to work on more planning-centric issues such as building out drafts of financial plans).

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Hiring Next-Gen Associate Advisors: A Guide To Recruiting, Training, And Retaining For Your RIA

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And as the associate gains experience and trust among existing clients, they can gradually take over some of the lead roles themselves, to be supported by new associate advisors of their own – thus allowing the firm to transition its clients from the founder to the next generation of advisors.

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#FA Success Ep 333: Scaling A Small-Business-Owner Boutique To A $31M Retainer-Based Valuation, With Jim Dew

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Jim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dew Wealth Management, an independent RIA based in Scottsdale, AZ, that provides virtual-family-office-style financial planning on a monthly retainer basis for 150 small-business owner entrepreneurs. My guest on today's podcast is Jim Dew.

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#FA Success Ep 298: Navigating The Evolution From Broker-Dealer To RIA Platform Leadership, With Carolyn Armitage

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Vest and Financial Network to improve upon or outright establish new advisory platforms within their existing brokerage businesses, and how in three short years, Carolyn built a new training and development platform for LPL’s largest advisors – helping them recruit and retain advisors, create better compensation packages, and even build (..)

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#FASuccess Ep 397: Powering Growth To $1.2B Of AUM With An Intentional Focus On (Local) Acquisitions Of Retiring Advisors, With Jaime Benedetti

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What's unique about Jaime, though, is how his firm has grown to more than $1 billion in AUM over the past 20 years in part by making a series of 6 acquisitions, typically buying mixed fee-and-commission practices from retiring advisors in his local area and converting them into ongoing recurring revenue financial planning clientele.

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#FA Success Ep 316: Building A COO Society To Help Advisory Firms Scale Up Their Efficiency, With Matt Sonnen

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What's unique about Matt, though, is how he and his wife have translated the years of hands-on support they’ve provided to independent advisory firms to improve their operations, tech stack, and overall scalability, into creating an entire community for the industry’s Chief Operating Officers – aptly dubbed as PFI’s “COO (..)