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

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In the not-so-distant past, the typical career path toward becoming a financial advisor was to build up a book of business on one’s own, often by either tapping into one’s own personal networks or cold-calling prospective clients in bulk to generate enough business to gain a foothold.

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#FASuccess Ep 430: Navigating The Fast-Growth Hiring Challenges Of Scaling From Scratch To $5M Of Revenue In Just 7 Years, With AJ Ayers

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In this episode, we talk in-depth about how AJ and her firm have navigated periods of rapid client headcount growth (with the firm averaging 14 new clients per month in 2021 while having just three planners on staff at the time), how AJ decided to hire rapidly to meet this brisk new client demand (by leveraging LinkedIn's Recruiter platform to actively (..)

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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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And be certain to listen to the end, where Sebastian shares how using the Entrepreneurial Operating System has allowed him to clarify his firm's goals, vision, and mission at a time of rapid client and employee growth (as the firm has nearly doubled over the past two years alone), how Sebastian's firm leverages an in-house recruiter to hire fast enough (..)

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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). For these advisors, an alternative approach would be to outsource the tasks they want to remove from their plates.

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#FASuccess Ep 427: Finding The Director Of Operations That Can Rebuild Your Team To Get To The Next Level, With Sten Morgan

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We also talk about how Sten and his operations director implemented a five-step process for hiring (which includes a resume review and screening call, an asynchronous video interview using the JobVite platform, an in-person interview, a work assignment, and then finally a team debrief to select a candidate), why Sten waits to interview at least four (..)

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 10-11)

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Also in industry news this week: A recent survey indicates that retirement plan sponsors currently using financial advisors to support their plan are overwhelmingly satisfied with the service they receive, which also leads to improved retirement savings for their employees.

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#FASuccess Ep 403: Carving Your Path As An Investment Nerd By Building A Fractional CIO Solution For Other Advisory Firms, With Eric Stein

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We also talk about Eric's own unique career journey, which started in commercial banking with stops along the way that included a variety of roles at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and working as an internal full-time Chief Investment Officer for a large national RIA before starting his current fractional CIO role, how Eric has leveraged recruiters (..)