Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 21, 2025

In this episode, we talk in-depth about why Daniel decided to outsource tax return preparation (rather than hire someone to do it in-house) to be able to access the expertise of the CPAs his firm uses (particularly for clients with complicated equity compensation plans), how Daniel views these CPA relationships as mutually beneficial from a financial (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In the early days of financial planning, serving clients often meant developing transactional relationships focused on facilitating trades and selling insurance. Over time, advisors shifted toward more analytical approaches, such as investment management and retirement planning.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Though in practice, while a 1% AUM fee is a common 'starting point' in the industry, the actual fee structure can vary based on the firm's approach; for example, some firms may reduce the fee for high-net-worth clients, or charge an additional fee for separate and additional services (from deeper financial planning to add-ons like tax preparation).

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 10, 2023

As owners of financial planning firms approach retirement, some may decide to sell to an external buyer, while others may plan for an internal succession. Sometimes, this succession plan can include the owner's child, providing an opportunity to keep the business in the family.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 17, 2023

What's unique about Brad, though, is how he built a multi-billion-dollar advisory firm not by moving 'upmarket' to gather multi-millionaire clients, but instead leveraged his 401(k) retirement plan advisory firm to begin offering comprehensive financial planning to the employees of large companies as an added employee benefit, and in the process scaled (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Zack is the Director of Financial Planning and Participant Engagement of Greenspring Advisors, an RIA based in Towson, Maryland, that manages $2 billion of private wealth assets under management for 1,300 client households and advises on an additional $5 billion in retirement plan assets.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Welcome to the 356th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! Sarah-Catherine is the founder of Aptus Financial, a fee-only financial planning firm based in Little Rock, Arkansas, that is approaching $2M in revenue and works with over 480 client households.

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 9, 2023

What's unique about Liz, though, is how she and her brother have taken ownership of what was originally their father’s broad commission-based practice with more than 1,500 clients, and have managed the balance of transitioning the business into a fee-based financial planning practice while still doing right by the smaller or more transactional (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Welcome back to the 297th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! Andy is the owner of Tenon Financial, a virtual independent RIA that oversees $70 million in assets under management for 43 retired client households. My guest on today's podcast is Andy Panko.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Also in industry news this week: While the FPA is going full steam ahead on its federal and state lobbying efforts to regulate the title “financial planner”, CFP Board is more focused on increasing recognition of the CFP marks. How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that Congress appears poised to pass “SECURE Act 2.0”, ”, a series of measures that will have significant impacts on the world of retirement planning.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 25, 2024

What's unique about Chris, though, is how he has built a highly efficient solo practice that allows him to work fewer than 25 hours/ week to have more time for his family and managed to cut his hours down by relentlessly focusing on only the financial planning tasks that really truly matter most to his clients… and either outsourcing, or just (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 8, 2023

In this post, Kitces.com Senior Financial Planning Nerd Ben Henry-Moreland writes about how he went from being hesitant to offer tax preparation at his solo RIA (given how common it is for tax preparers to work long hours throughout tax season) to embracing it as a core part of the business’ service offering.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 2, 2022

What’s unique about Matthew, though, is how he differentiates his firm by offering his high-net-worth clients opportunities to diversify their investment portfolios by syndicating private real estate partnerships that directly purchase individual multi-unit rental properties.

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Darrow Wealth Management

APRIL 15, 2024

It goes by many different names: semi-retirement, partial or phased retirement, second career, and so on. But typically, it means the same thing: working in some capacity after retiring early. As more workers consider the growing appeal of semi-retirement, some ask — is working part-time in retirement a good idea?

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

What's unique about Bridget, though, is how, as a solo advisor, she found herself overwhelmed with the pressures of having to manage different aspects of her business while also providing great service to her clients as she quickly grew to $77M of AUM in 7 years, and has decided to not to "scale" her firm by hiring more advisors but instead leverage (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 2, 2023

We also discuss why Jake and his team not only create long-term financial plans for their clients, but also focus on a 10-year vision to help his younger, travel-loving clientele start achieving more of their immediate goals so they're more likely to retain as clients by feeling like they're making near-term financial planning progress.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 24, 2023

Welcome back to the 317th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! Jennifer is the CEO and a Senior Advisor for Milestone Financial Planning, an independent RIA based in Bedford, New Hampshire, that oversees $360 million in assets under management for 225 client households.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

and why Suzanne has taken an approach of not trying to work and save for retirement as a time to enjoy when she gets there, but instead has structured her busy-season-light-season approach to client meetings to allow for more space to enjoy trips and time with her family now, instead.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 6, 2024

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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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 24, 2022

a single person, a couple, a business, or a retirement plan) and the date on which the agreement will become effective. To start, the agreement should contain basic information about the adviser-client relationship, including who the client is (e.g.,

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 24, 2022

a single person, a couple, a business, or a retirement plan) and the date on which the agreement will become effective. To start, the agreement should contain basic information about the adviser-client relationship, including who the client is (e.g.,

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 1, 2024

What's unique about Gaetano, though, is how after breaking away from an insurance broker-dealer with barely $5M in assets under management, he has been able to quickly build his practice to $75 million in AUM in just 5 years in part by turning what was originally a liability for him in his 20s – being a 'young' advisor who prospective clients (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Welcome back to the 307th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! Stacey is the President of Envision Financial Planning, an independent RIA based in Memphis, Tennessee, that oversees nearly $200 million in assets under management for 206 client households. My guest on today's podcast is Stacey Hyde.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We also talk about how, while she was still working for a broker-dealer, Libby learned to differentiate herself not by learning to better sell her firm’s products but instead by diving deep into contract language of her clients’ insurance and annuity policies to find the gaps where those products didn’t really fit their financial (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 13, 2024

What's unique about Eric, though, is how he has built Marcum Wealth into a multi-billion-dollar firm under the umbrella of a national accounting firm, in large part by cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with the firm's internal CPAs to get them comfortable providing referrals of their accounting clients to his financial planning business.

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MazumaBusinessAccounting

JULY 15, 2021

Plan for Current Business Needs. First, let’s talk about the importance of a business plan. How does an idea develop into a fully functioning business? It takes vision, work, and a good plan. For entrepreneurs, we call this map a business plan. Creating a marketing plan.

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Business Planning Taxes Planning Retirement 105

Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how John and his entire firm serves the Federal employee niche, with a particular focus on the areas that make their clients' situations different from others, such as the Federal government's unique retirement system that includes both defined-benefit pension and defined-contribution plans, how John finds that (..)

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Darrow Wealth Management

APRIL 15, 2024

It goes by many different names: semi-retirement, partial or phased retirement, second career, and so on. But typically, it means the same thing: working in some capacity after retiring early. As more workers consider the growing appeal of semi-retirement, some ask — is working part-time in retirement a good idea?

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Good Financial Cents

MAY 8, 2023

So whether you need to pay off debt , build an emergency fund , save for your kids’ college education , or invest for retirement , here are some ways you can make it hap’n, cap’n. Why Long-Term Financial Goals Are Important Long-term financial goals provide direction and motivation for your financial decisions.

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NAIFA Advisor Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

Delvin Joyce is a Certified Financial Planner specializing in providing comprehensive financial planning services. He collaborates with clients and their advisors to create a detailed and robust financial plan tailored to their unique needs and goals.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 19, 2024

Founding owners of financial advisory firms often spend much of their time focusing on the short-term aspects of running their business, from providing high-quality client service to pursuing client growth.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Lisa realized that by visiting Coca-Cola’s headquarters consistently and engaging employees in-person about their financial issues, she could become known as a familiar and trusted financial expert in the Coca-Cola community, how Lisa leveraged writing white papers about preparing for retirement and (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 5, 2024

We also talk about Rob's journey from getting an undergrad in Kinesiology and starting med school to moving into accounting and then ultimately becoming a financial planner through the program at UCLA (because financial planning was the perfect blend of helping people the way he wanted to in medicine, and working with numbers the way he did in accounting), (..)

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Fortune Financial

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

How to Choose the Right Wealth Management Firm in Kansas City Managing your wealth is a crucial aspect of financial success and security. Long-Term vs. Intermediate and Short-Term Goals Begin by distinguishing between your long-term, intermediate-term and short-term financial goals.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Joe has witnessed firsthand as an advisory firm owner, and now a partner at a leading global investment management firm, how the financial services industry is evolving in real time as more banks and brokerage firms are truly adopting financial planning and implementing advisory services at national scale (..)

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Fortune Financial

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

How to Choose the Right Wealth Management Firm in Kansas City Managing your wealth is a crucial aspect of financial success and security. Long-Term vs. Intermediate and Short-Term Goals Begin by distinguishing between your long-term, intermediate-term and short-term financial goals.

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