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Choosing A Financial Advisor? – Ask These 6 Questions

The Chicago Financial Planner

A part of this process might include hiring a financial advisor or hiring a new financial advisor if you have decided to move on from your current advisor. Hiring the right advisor for your needs is critical. Here are six questions to ask when choosing a financial advisor: How do you get paid?

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MiB: Tom Rampulla, Vanguard’s Financial Advisor Services Director

The Big Picture

This week, we speak with Thomas Rampulla, managing director of Vanguard’s Financial Advisor Services. The division provides investments, services, education and research to more than 1,000 financial advisory firms representing more than $3 trillion in assets. in client funds. Tom Rampulla’s favorite books.

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Summer Reading List Of “Best Books” For Financial Advisors – 2024 Edition

Nerd's Eye View

client retention rates remaining robust, and at least a bit of client referral growth trickling in. Which is leading to healthy profit margins at the typical advisory firm, as more and more advisors eye the possibility that AI will produce even more business efficiencies (and stronger profitability) in the year to come.

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How Advisors Can Work With Attorneys To Drive Better Estate Planning Outcomes For Clients

Nerd's Eye View

Financial advisors add value for their clients not only by helping them grow their wealth, but also by working with them to create a plan for how to use it. While much of this process may focus on the client's own lifetime planning needs (e.g.,

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CEO Peer Groups: A Strategy For Financial Advisors To Build Trust With And Attract Business Owner Clients

Nerd's Eye View

When it comes to focusing on a niche for financial advisors, business owner clients can be an appealing target as they can have complex financial planning problems ranging from cash flow management to tax planning to acquisition strategies.

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What High-Net-Worth Prospects (Really) Want From A Financial Advisor

Nerd's Eye View

In the early days of wealth management, a financial advisor's value proposition was relatively explicit, typically focusing on a limited range of portfolio management activities (e.g., Even with the best intentions, this disconnect can ultimately damage an advisor's perceived value over time.

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Summer Reading List Of “Best Books” For Financial Advisors – 2023 Edition

Nerd's Eye View

Firms that were returning to the office have done so, those that are staying remote are remaining as such, and either way most advisory firms have figured out how to continue to service and retain clients, and are slowly adapting to finding new (or reinvigorating old) paths to grow at least slowly once again.