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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (January 11–12)

Nerd's Eye View

Also in industry news this week: A survey indicates that nearly 71% of new financial advisors drop out in the first 5 years, with firms offering better training and mentorship opportunities (as well as entry-level positions that don't come with business development targets) seeing higher employee retention rates How broker-dealer self-regulatory organization (..)

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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

The Big Picture

Media Madness : Do we really need 24/7 financial advice for our investments we wont draw on for decades? when the best course for our long-term financial health is to do nothing? We view valuation as a snapshot in time instead of recognizing how it evolves over a cycle, driven primarily by changes in investor psychology.

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (November 2023)

Nerd's Eye View

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: FinanceHQ has launched as a new digital lead generation platform for financial advisors, which takes a more niche-focused approach to matching prospective clients with advisors – representing a bet that capturing prospects (..)

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (July 6-7)

Nerd's Eye View

Supreme Court decision shifting authority to interpret laws passed by Congress from Federal agencies to the judicial system could have significant impacts on regulation of the financial advice industry, including the potential for additional legal challenges to regulations from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Department of Labor (DoL), (..)

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How to Create a Winning Advice Experience

Advisor Perspectives

Power study, fewer than 15% of clients say their advisor provides an ideal advice experience; and yet many advisors likely suffer from Dunning Kruger cognitive bias , where they think they are among that 15% when for the majority, that’s impossible. Why is financial advice in such a state?

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Kitces & Carl Ep 136: Should Internal Succession Plans Provide A G2 Discount For Lack Of Affordability?

Nerd's Eye View

For over a decade, the financial advice industry has been bracing for an "any-minute-now" tsunami of advisor retirements and concomitant sales of financial planning practices. The primary risks when selling an advisory firm are that the deal may fall through, and existing clients may choose to leave the firm.

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Will AI Burst the M&A Bubble?

Advisor Perspectives

Our profession is being transformed by powerful, AI-based technologies that will replace human-based financial advice. They will drive down costs, reduce valuations, and deflate the multiples paid in M&A transactions.