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101 Ways Advisors Can Add Value And Attract Their Ideal Clients

Nerd's Eye View

Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. But, with the rise of index funds and the commoditization of investment advice, generating sufficient investment ‘alpha’ to justify a fee has become more challenging for advisors.

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101 Things That Advisors Actually DO To Add Value (Beyond Just Allocating A Portfolio)

Nerd's Eye View

Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. But, with the rise of index funds and the commoditization of investment advice, generating sufficient investment ‘alpha’ to justify a fee has become more challenging for advisors.

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Fee-Only vs. Commission-Based Information

Inside Information

Did you know that World Investment Advisors recently acquired a Raymond James RIA with $3.5 They’re expected to write two or three articles a month on preconceived topics and are told not to p**s off the advertisers—or the audience. billion in assets under management? And then I realized what is the point of this rant.

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New Voice at the SEC

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She is now working at the SEC, as senior advisor to SEC chair Gary Gensler. When brokerage firms argued that they functioned just like fee-only advisors, Roper suggested that their reps be required to register with the SEC and be regulated similarly. . Well, two out of three ain’t bad…).

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How the SEC Has Strayed From Its Mission

Inside Information

The list of things that would trigger the requirement to register also includes the delivery of a financial plan, holding out as providing advice or holding out in any way (presumably including advertisements) that indicates the offer of holistic financial advisory services. Does any of this sound familiar about today’s marketplace?).

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Fiduciary Advocate

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He thinks that the distinction has been deliberately (and very effectively) blurred by the brokerage industry, which advertises itself as helping facilitate peoples’ dreams with financial planning and investment advice, whose brokers call themselves, on their business cards, advisors, vice presidents of investments or wealth managers. “If

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

The Big Picture

So, Brian is not a stranger to me, and we have some shared financial interests, but the reason I wanted to bring him in here is there are few people in the industry who have a better perch by which to look at the world of registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, all of the changes that are taking place in the space.