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

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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Clients Financial Advisor Business Planning Taxes 217

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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Planning Financial Advisor Financial Counseling Clients 239

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.

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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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Commission Planning Financial Advisor Financial Planning 234

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

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 (..)

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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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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.

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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.

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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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Clients Financial Planning Financial Advisor Planning 243

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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Consulting Clients Financial Planning Compensation Planning 214

Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 19, 2024

Which means that longer-term projects, such as creating a succession plan to have in place for the firm when the owner retires, may tend to get put on the back burner.

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Planning Risk Tolerance Clients Valuation 130

Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 16, 2024

Thomas is the co-founder of AllStreet Wealth, a financial planning firm for millennial business owners and those with equity comp based in Indianapolis, IN, that has quickly grown to more than $500,000 of run-rate revenue generated from serving 70 ongoing client households. My guest on today's podcast is Thomas Kopelman.

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Media Financial Advisor Financial Planning Planning 238

Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Welcome to the October 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

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Much of this frustration can be avoided with a clear onboarding plan. A good onboarding plan can bring clarity to the advisor (or hiring manager) on how much time will need to be spent with the new hire, what order to present information in, and when an advisor can plan to 'let go' of and finally delegate different tasks to the CSA.

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Clients Planning Financial Advice Management 130

Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For example, most Millennial and Gen Z clients can open their own investing account and buy index funds online with only minimal guidance from their advisor, so full-service investing might not offer enough value to a next-generation client to justify an ongoing planning fee.

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Clients Planning Tax Planning Management 244

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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Clients Planning Financial Planner Financial Planning 130

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JANUARY 29, 2024

In more recent years, however, entrepreneurial software providers have picked up on advisors' demand for tools that help them broaden and deepen their planning beyond even what traditional comprehensive planning software can do. Read More.

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Clients Planning Numbers Financial Advisor 239

Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This month's edition kicks off with the news that financial planning software platform RightCapital has launched a workflow management tool called RightFlows to help advisors manage and assign steps in the financial planning process to team members and clients – which on the one hand capitalizes on advisor demand for workflow solutions tailored (..)

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Estate Planning Financial Planning Planning Wealth Management 239

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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Financial Planning Retirement Planning Clients 246

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. My guest on today's podcast is Zack Hubbard.

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Financial Planning Planning Retirement Planning Financial Advisor 130

Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 3, 2024

What's unique about Eric, though, is how he was able to 10X his AUM to $50 million in just 3 years by focusing on working with his ideal target client (employees at big tech firms), which led to him breaking down his planning process into smaller bite-sized chunks… as he found that doing less at a time, stretched out over a longer period of time, (..)

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Planning Financial Planning Financial Advisor Clients 130

Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 25, 2024

In this article, Kitces Managing Editor Sydney Squires shares how the fully virtual Kitces team constructs its biannual team retreats – and how other leaders of virtual teams can also plan and execute a retreat of their own. While a great deal of work is involved in the logistical planning of organizing a retreat (e.g.,

Planning 242

Planning Taxes Management Clients 242

Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 17, 2024

And while all may appear well on the surface – the client rarely contacts the advisor with problems but they show up for every annual meeting – they may actually be feeling quite disengaged with the financial planning services being provided. – important goals. Questions such as "What is different from the last time we met?"

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Clients Financial Planning Planning Compliance 233

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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Clients Financial Advice Financial Planning Financial Advisor 246

Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how, as Emily progressed in her career from working on 401(k) plans to focusing on financial planning, she faced challenges and eventual burnout while building a successful financial planning offering in a firm that was still primarily focused on 401(k) plans first and foremost and didn’t want to allocate (..)

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Financial Advisor Financial Planning Planning Financial Planner 246

Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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. Welcome to the 356th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Sarah-Catherine Gutierrez.

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Financial Advisor Financial Planning Planning Fee Only 227

Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Morgan Stanley rolls out a held-away account aggregation feature for its 401(k) plan advisors to provide more holistic advice within the plan to participants (before they ever have a chance to roll over to an independent advisor in the future!?).

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Commission Financial Planning Ethics Planning 245

Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 6, 2023

Which at best will still be a substantial uphill battle, given the hassle of switching from one financial planning platform to another (and the fact that most advisors are generally satisfied with their current financial planning software in the first place!).

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Compliance Financial Planning Planning Clients 235

Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 3, 2024

This month's edition kicks off with the news that 'startup' custodian Altruist has completed a $169 million fundraising round as it continues to rebuild the RIA custodial tech stack layer-by-layer while positioning itself as the biggest RIA custodian built from scratch and solely for advisors – which, while making it the clear #3 custodian behind (..)

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Risk Tolerance Communication Startup Financial Planning 239

Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

At the same time, though, over-analyzing strategies prior to implementing them can create a substantial gap between ideating a plan and actually putting it into motion. business goals! And sometimes, the fear of committing to an idea that might end in failure can be the real reason for the hesitation to implement in the first place.

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Strategic Planning Planning Communication Financial Advisor 223

Nerd's Eye View

MAY 15, 2024

In practice, the DoL's Final Rule means that financial advisers who advise clients about rolling over assets from an employee retirement account like a 401(k) plan into an IRA are now subject to ERISA fiduciary obligations.

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Retirement Commission Banking Financial Advising 246

Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Kevin's firm's new hire training program ramps up through the first 6 months, starting with an initial 90-day stage that uses standardized case studies to teach the firm's financial planning process and how to review and input data into the firm's systems, followed by a second 90-day stage that builds new (..)

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Wealth Management Financial Advisor Clients Planning 246

Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

These meetings allow advisors to listen to their clients’ concerns, make planning recommendations, and chart a course for the coming months. Ultimately, the key point is that just as no single planning strategy is applicable for every client, no single practice management technique is appropriate for every financial planning firm.

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Clients Financial Planning Planning Financial Advisor 246

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JUNE 6, 2023

Adam is a principal with RubinGoldman and Associates, and the Founder and CEO of Asset-Map, a financial planning tool that helps financial advisors create a visual representation of their clients’ financial situation, reaching over 1.25 Welcome back to the 336th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! million users.

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