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Nerd's Eye View
DECEMBER 18, 2024
While state and Federal regulations clearly outline recordkeeping requirements for areas like financials, advertisements, and trading records, there is a notable gap when it comes to documenting the delivery of services – especially financial planning services – necessary to justify the fees charged for those services.
Nerd's Eye View
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Over the past decade, a growing number of advisors have expanded into offering comprehensive financial planning services, reflecting a shift that not only helps them stand out from (increasingly commoditized) portfolio management offerings but also supports clients' broader financial goals.
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Prosperity Coaching
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Why a Solo Retreat is Great for Annual Business Planning for Financial Advisors: Today let’s plan your biggest success as a financial advisor in all the years you have been in the business by A.Planning a solo retreat, and B.Learning strategies for income growth.
Nerd's Eye View
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Welcome to the November 2024 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors!
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Nerd's Eye View
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
So, whether you're interested in learning about building a profitable hyperfocused practice, implementing a marketing approach that reaches a firm's ideal target client, or adding value for clients by offering advanced tax planning, then we hope you enjoy this episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast, with Anjali Jariwala.
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Wealth Management
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Advisors are overdelivering services such as health care, estate and business planning, while falling short in the areas their clients most desire.
Wealth Management
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Myriad Advisor Solutions announces two initiatives to help clients navigate the digital landscape securely while optimizing their business legacies.
Nerd's Eye View
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Jennifer is the CEO of The Mather Group, an RIA based in Chicago, Illinois, that oversees $15 billion in combined assets under management and advisement for approximately 4,400 client households.
Nerd's Eye View
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Travis is the founder of Student Loan Planner, an RIA and student loan consulting company based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina that serves nearly 1,400 households with ongoing financial planning (as well as consulting with over 15,000 clients on student loan debt).
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Nerd's Eye View
APRIL 8, 2025
Seth is the founder of Heartwood Financial Planning, an advisory firm affiliated with PlanMember Securities Corporation that is based in Fresno, California, and oversees approximately $100 million in assets under management for 850 client households. Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 432nd episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast!
Nerd's Eye View
MARCH 24, 2025
For smaller firms – especially those with little to no experience onboarding new advisors – creating a well-paced financial plan can feel daunting. However, a structured and flexible onboarding plan not only helps an associate advisor ramp up efficiently but also ensures a smooth transition into an autonomous and fulfilling role!
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Nerd's Eye View
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
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Nerd's Eye View
APRIL 9, 2025
It's natural for advisors to begin discovery meetings by asking questions about a client's current financial situation – understanding cash flow, debt, investments, risk tolerance, or even the burning tax concern that brought them to the advisor's door in the first place is crucial for financial planning. Read More.
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Nerd's Eye View
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
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.
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
JANUARY 22, 2025
Instead, acknowledging their ambivalence as a natural part of the decision-making process can help create space for them to discover the value of financial planning on their own. One effective way to facilitate this self-discovery is through self-persuasion questions.
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Nerd's Eye View
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
What's unique about Cristina, though, is how her firm supports clients in the so-called "sandwich generation" by both creating a financial plan for the clients' personal financial needs and goals, and by addressing (often with a separately paid add-on financial planning engagement) the financial issues facing their aging (and frequently less financially (..)
Nerd's Eye View
JANUARY 21, 2025
What's unique about Daniel, though, is how his firm has expanded its tax focus to include "in-house" tax return preparation for its clients as a one-stop shop, but actually outsources the tax preparation work itself to trusted CPAs that he pays out of his own revenue (rather than bringing this service fully in-house) so that he can focus his staff (..)
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Nerd's Eye View
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
A common service model for many financial advisory firms is to schedule annual client meetings throughout the year where the advisor meets with each client in the month they started working with the firm, and conducts a comprehensive review of all planning topics for the client. Read More.
Nerd's Eye View
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
To sustain firm growth, financial advisors often face a dilemma: to focus on what originally drew them to the profession – like financial planning – they often must first do an extensive amount of business development.
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Nerd's Eye View
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Though, at some point, covering a large number of financial planning topics can eat into an advisor's time, which is problematic if clients won't pay substantially more to receive that more comprehensive advice.
Nerd's Eye View
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
annual plan reviews) to their current clients, they will continue to prospect and onboard new clients as well. 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).
Nerd's Eye View
AUGUST 24, 2023
However, when these aspirations are delayed or blocked by senior advisory firm partners who choose to delay their retirement plans, it can leave younger advisors frustrated and in a place of uncertainty about their futures with their firm.
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Nerd's Eye View
MARCH 10, 2025
These services may range from 'standard' offerings like retirement planning to less traditional areas like credit card consulting. Financial advicers often market their comprehensive financial services as a way to differentiate themselves from other advisory firms and to stand out in the broader landscape of financial advice.
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Nerd's Eye View
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The increasing popularity of financial planning has led to a growing awareness of how important managing finances and planning for the future can be. For most financial advisors today, a website is a critical tool that allows them to market their services and communicate their fees to potential clients.
Nerd's Eye View
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
When a client first begins working with an advisor, the relationship is often marked with a flurry of onboarding tasks, immediate issues to resolve, and long-term planning goals to establish. This transition is a core element of the "Fix, Fine, Flourish" financial planning framework.
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Nerd's Eye View
JUNE 11, 2024
In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Mark created a structured process to serve clients under the hourly model, including segmenting client engagements into 5 "levels" based on the complexity of their needs to match them with the right advisor, how Mark's firm uses those levels to provide accurate quotes for how many hours it will take to meet (..)
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Nerd's Eye View
DECEMBER 17, 2024
We also talk about how Fran's decision to be upfront and public about her progressive social and political stances has allowed her to attract both employees and clients seeking a firm with these values (helping her 10X her AUM in just the past 9 years… after it had taken her 14 years to get her first $20M using the traditional approach), why (..)
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Nerd's Eye View
AUGUST 23, 2022
What's unique about Shari, though, is how after a life-changing experience she went through in trying to get clear in articulating her own most important values, she created a 5-step “Maximize the Return on Life” framework to use with her clients, and then created what she calls her “CFO Family Checklist” as a form of living (..)
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Nerd's Eye View
APRIL 15, 2025
dollars in revenue, and how Cameron's willingness to just meet and get to know other advisors, businesses, and content creators, without having a specific goal in mind, has led to multiple serendipitous business opportunities throughout his career. million U.S.
Nerd's Eye View
MARCH 3, 2025
Read the analysis about these announcements in this month's column, and a discussion of more trends in advisor technology, including: Datalign Advisory, a data-driven advisor lead generation platform, has raised $5 million, with the announcement underscoring the reality that despite the many complaints from advisors about the cost and quality of paid (..)
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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
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
What's unique about Eric, though, is how he leverages a custom-built financial planning assessment he calls their Financial Prosperity Index, which he gives to both prospective and ongoing current clients so that they can better understand their financial health, target the financial planning domains where clients need the most help, and even more (..)
Nerd's Eye View
DECEMBER 16, 2024
When a financial planning firm is hiring a new employee, it naturally wants to find the best candidate to fill the role.
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Nerd's Eye View
DECEMBER 5, 2023
So, whether you're interested in learning about how to build associate advisor compensation plans and career tracks, how to leverage a multi-faceted marketing approach to generate client leads, or what it looks like to roll up into a larger RIA, then we hope you enjoy this episode of the Financial Advisor Success podcast, with Jeff Brown.
Nerd's Eye View
AUGUST 23, 2022
What's unique about Shari, though, is how after a life-changing experience she went through in trying to get clear in articulating her own most important values, she created a 5-step “Maximize the Return on Life” framework to use with her clients, and then created what she calls her “CFO Family Checklist” as a form of living (..)
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Nerd's Eye View
MARCH 25, 2025
We also talk about how serving the equity compensation niche has allowed AJ and her firm to rapidly attract new clients and then efficiently systematize its planning process and give its advisors the chance to get lots of ‘at bats' early on working with its target clients, how AJ and her partner further streamlined their firm's planning process (..)
Nerd's Eye View
APRIL 7, 2025
Welcome to the April 2025 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors!
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MARCH 4, 2025
Sten is the owner of Legacy Investment Planning, a hybrid advisory firm based in Franklin, Tennessee, that oversees $220 million in assets under management for 90 client households. Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 427th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Sten Morgan.
Nerd's Eye View
JANUARY 28, 2025
We also talk Kay Lynn's current role managing her firm's mergers and acquisitions activity (including how she and her business partner decided to sell their previous firm to Merit rather than go through their own internal succession), why Kay Lynn sees more value in selling firms when their G2 advisors are also equity owners, even if the founder is (..)
Nerd's Eye View
JULY 26, 2022
Amy is the owner of Rooted Planning Group, an independent RIA based in Corning, New York that oversees $67 million in assets under management for 175 client households. Welcome back to the 291st episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Amy Irvine.
Nerd's Eye View
MARCH 17, 2025
In addition, AI Notetakers are increasingly popular as advisors' financial plans get increasingly comprehensive; not surprisingly, the more detailed financial planning conversations happen in client meetings, the more there is to capture and share out. At the same time, AI Meeting Notes tools themselves continue to evolve rapidly.
Nerd's Eye View
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
This month's edition kicks off with the news that FP Alpha has released its tax return extraction and analysis module as a standalone product, while RightCapital has separately launched its own tax return extraction tool bundled within its platform – with both announcements coming on the heels of Holistiplan implementing a significant price increase, (..)
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Nerd's Eye View
MAY 14, 2024
What's unique about Danielle, though, is how she has created a process she calls "Financial Fingerprints To Footprints ", where she helps clients who are struggling to implement their financial planning recommendations by working with them to unlock their money memories and help them understand how the financial lessons of their past may be creating (..)
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