Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As financial planning has evolved over the years, better tools have become available to help advisors maximize their impact with more clients by increasing their efficiency. robo-advisors) might someday replace human advisors, there are still many elements of financial planning that benefit from engagement with a human advisor.

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eMoney Advisor

JANUARY 10, 2023

When financial professionals know how to effectively present a financial plan, they can better engage clients in the planning process and earn clients for life. Presenting a financial plan, however, isn’t as simple as running through the numbers. Communicate Clearly and Effectively.

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Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I would take those numbers and spend a lot of time carefully crafting a financial plan and creating proposals. Then I would present the plan to the client. Just like that, all the time spent on their financial plan was wasted because of bad data.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Traditionally, financial planning meetings have been held face-to-face in an advisor's office, and over the years, a body of research has emerged showing that how the advisor's office is laid out can have a significant impact on how clients perceive the advisor, their mood during the meeting, and even their resulting financial planning decisions.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 10, 2023

Hosted by Joel Bruckenstein and his team from T3 Consulting, the conference covered everything from how technology providers are continuing to expand their features and integration capabilities to how advisors can manage their own expanding tech stacks to the ever-present question of how AI tools like ChatGPT will impact the advisory industry.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 29, 2022

While newer advisors are faced with infinite pathways in the financial services industry, it can often be easy to focus solely on getting ahead professionally while putting aside personal interests and self-care. Read More.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 27, 2024

The practice of asking questions has always been an integral part of the financial planning process. In the early days of the advicer industry, those questions almost exclusively dealt with facts around a client's or prospect's financial situation to determine (ultimately) what products the adviser should recommend.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Taxes are a central component of financial planning. Almost every financial planning issue – whether it is retirement, investments, cash flow, insurance, or estate planning – has tax considerations, and advisors provide a great deal of value in helping clients minimize their overall tax burden.

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These 'situation' questions (which, again, are also more effective when presented in the command/statement form) help the client tell the story around their facts and share why something is important to them.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 7, 2023

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that the T3/Inside Information Software Survey is available, providing insights into which technology tools advisors use and their level of satisfaction with them, which highlighted the continued rise of specialized financial planning (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 11, 2022

Financial advisors are often responsible for working with a wide range of individuals, both among their client base and coworkers, who each have their own personality, beliefs, and style of communication. Read More.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A cornerstone service that many financial advisors provide is education. One potential dynamic of these conversations might involve the advisor's bruised feelings from knowing the client had been searching for financial planning answers somewhere else rather than coming to the advisor and asking their questions directly.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

For many financial advisors, the most valuable part of what they offer comes down to the financial advice that they give, whether it be the expert guidance they give to a certain niche or a unique point of view that presents unique insights to an individual client. developing a valuable offering for consumers.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 10, 2022

When financial planning clients think about their future, they might imagine a relaxing retirement, world travel, or other pleasant experiences. When wrapping up the conversation around the second Life Planning question, the main objective is to determine how the client’s goals will be integrated into their financial plan (e.g.,

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Most commonly, niches present as particular needs of a firm's clients. Because as the industry continues to grow, so too will the demand for accessible financial planning advice! These needs are often understood in terms of a client's occupation (e.g., Read More.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

JUNE 2, 2023

The importance of getting women into financial planning feels like it should go without saying. Unfortunately, we’re not quite there yet as a society, since as of 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports only a third of financial advisors are women. In 2022, nearly 42% of the externships participants were women.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 28, 2024

Alternatively, some advisors have instead opted to collect clients' login information so they can execute the trades in their clients' accounts themselves –presenting numerous data security and compliance issues for the advisor (and can lead to the advisor being considered to have custody over client assets).

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 28, 2024

Alternatively, some advisors have instead opted to collect clients' login information so they can execute the trades in their clients' accounts themselves –presenting numerous data security and compliance issues for the advisor (and can lead to the advisor being considered to have custody over client assets).

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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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WiserAdvisor

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

For these reasons and several others, it is essential to follow specific financial planning tips for dual-income families. If you wish to learn about financial strategies that can help dual-income families plan their finances better, consider seeking the services of a professional financial advisor for the same.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

When it comes to helping clients clarify their most important financial planning goals and priorities, many advisors may find it difficult to facilitate the insightful conversations necessary to guide clients through an exploration of these values.

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eMoney Advisor

DECEMBER 5, 2022

By taking the clients back to the beginning, the financial professional can get to the heart of what the couple in conflict truly wants out of their financial plan. Using communication skills derived from financial counseling , learn what would be a win for each of the partners. Sources: 1 Asebedo, Ph.D.,

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Investment Writing

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Metaphors are powerful tools for communication. I couldn’t get the phrase “the pebble in the shoe” out of my mind after an advisor mentioned it to me at an annual conference of the Financial Planning Association of Massachusetts back in 2011. This is true even though I didn’t attend Fithian’s presentation.

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eMoney Advisor

MARCH 16, 2023

Along the way, I’ve gathered six key insights about financial planning for Millennials. However, sometimes it gets to be too much when it comes to financial topics. Then we do the financial plan and tax planning around that—it’s been a lot of fun. I would say that’s accurate.

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Midstream Marketing

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This blog post will explore the importance of advisor marketing in todays evolving financial services industry, focusing on strategies for success. Key strategies include leveraging up-to-date resources and personalizing client communications for better engagement. It is part of the broader Broadridge Advisor Solutions.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 29, 2022

While newer advisors are faced with infinite pathways in the financial services industry, it can often be easy to focus solely on getting ahead professionally while putting aside personal interests and self-care. Read More.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 16, 2024

What's unique about Christi, though, is how she evolved her career into providing this type of unique family office service after nearly a decade of working as a more 'traditional' financial advisor, when she realized that she had developed a unique skill set to get very deeply involved in the (many) administrative demands of running complex ultra-high-net-worth (..)

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Workable Wealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Financial planning can take your money game up a notch by bringing clarity, strategy, and intention to your financial life. A healthy financial plan gives you the tools to take control of your finances and start living your life with passion, purpose, and freedom. So what’s the value of a financial plan?

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Integrity Financial Planning

JULY 27, 2023

In an era where communication didn’t happen instantly, the thrill of opening a letter, carefully unfolding it from its envelope, and reading someone’s thoughts, feelings, or news was immeasurable. Instead, it’s about cherishing the memories, enjoying the present, and looking forward to the future.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 10, 2025

By aligning your money values with your ethics, you create a financial plan that reflects who you truly are and what matters most. Ask yourself: Are my current financial choices still aligned with what I value most? This regular check-in allows you to adjust your financial plan as needed.

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Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

By Bryce Sanders Like every profession, people believe in misconceptions about financial advisors and insurance agents. This likely involves financial planning, presenting a proposal addressing their issues, making investments, and meeting periodically to review performance and progress. How you do business.

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Sara Grillo

JANUARY 9, 2023

As the move to transparency in financial planning takes hold, regulations are changing in Colorado and other states. Here’s the triumph of virtue that financial planning transparency will (FINALLY) bring to planners across the country and the benefits to clients that come along with it. What should financial advisors do?

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eMoney Advisor

JANUARY 24, 2023

A financial plan should be an accurate reflection of a client’s truest vision for their future. Creating a financial plan that maps closely to a client’s values and goals requires quite a bit of work—mostly in getting to the heart of what really matters to them. This is a highly underrated aspect of planning.

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eMoney Advisor

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you’re a financial advisor struggling to figure out how to grow your audience on LinkedIn, or you’d like to improve the content you’re putting out on social media forums, this article has solid suggestions. Financial Planning KPIs Your Firm Should Be Tracking. Financial Planning for Millennials.

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BlueMind

MAY 10, 2022

With the competition becoming fierce in the growing financial industry, you need an edge to set yourself apart from your competitors. That can be done by asking the right financial planning questions and providing your clients with a unique and extraordinary advisor-client experience.

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Indigo Marketing Agency

JULY 23, 2024

The presentation should be simple yet engaging; authoritative, yet welcoming. Instead of setting your web presence on the back burner for another month, draw inspiration from some of the effective, professional websites for financial advisors that the marketing experts here at Indigo Marketing Agency have built recently.

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