Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 8, 2025

Seth is the founder of Heartwood Financial Planning, an advisory firm affiliated with PlanMember Securities Corporation that is based in Fresno, California, and oversees approximately $100 million in assets under management for 850 client households. Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 432nd episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast!

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Wealth Management

JULY 2, 2025

From Point Solutions to Seamless Intelligence For decades, our industry has relied on integrations—APIs painstakingly connected across custodians, CRMs, planning tools and portfolio management systems. It’s a shift in how we think about data, identity and access. The rise of agentic AI changes that completely.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 14, 2025

What's unique about Michelle, though, is the way she created a structured meeting process to navigate around the places where new clients often get stuck, standardized their experience in navigating through her deep planning process… and still retained a way to ensure that each client's financial plan focus and implementation is customized to (..)

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Wealth Management

JULY 10, 2025

Financial Planning: eMoney and Envestnet MoneyGuide Related: Former Citadel Quants Raise $36M for Fixed-Income Fintech We’re very solidly going to remain eMoney and MoneyGuide. The advisor experience and transitioning clients to their financial planning portal are heavy lifts that directly impact the end client.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 25, 2025

But we’re a financial planning-based firm, which creates some simplicity in how we allocate assets. Financial Planning: eMoney and MoneyGuidePro JW: Orion also has a pretty good integration with MoneyGuide Pro, and they have a decent one with eMoney, as well. They do have a lot more bells and whistles.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A common service model for many financial advisory firms is to schedule annual client meetings throughout the year where the advisor meets with each client in the month they started working with the firm, and conducts a comprehensive review of all planning topics for the client.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Attorneys are needed to draft the fund's offering documents, and if the advisor wants to avoid the need to register the securities or the investment company with the SEC, the firm will need to implement policies and procedures to ensure the fund meets the exemptions for those requirements.

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 5, 2025

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: Charles Schwab has taken a minority stake in estate planning platform Wealth.com as it seeks to offer estate document preparation to its retail investor clients – which on the one hand gives Schwab a value-add that could keep (..)

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Wealth Management

JUNE 20, 2025

For all of us on the editorial staff, it was a busy event. Each discussed how providing a more holistic approach to distribution-phase planning in their practices can amp up organic growth for advisory firms. Now, two years in, it has built AI agents to automate document processing.

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Advisor Perspectives

JULY 9, 2025

A real business plan is much more than a list of goals or an aspirational document gathering dust in a drawer.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 3, 2023

million in seed funding to support its growth as it builds out its "end-to-end" financial planning and advice engagement platform (but will it be able to replace, rather than augment, advisors' existing financial planning software?)

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 7, 2023

This month's edition kicks off with the news that estate planning platform Wealth.com has launched Ester, an AI-driven 'legal assistant' that uses machine learning to help advisors quickly review and extract the key information from clients' estate planning documents, as it joins FP Alpha in the competition to become 'Holistiplan for estate planning (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In this guest post, Chris Stanley, investment management attorney and Founding Principal of Beach Street Legal, discusses in depth the various stages of buying, selling, and merging an investment advisory and financial planning business.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 24, 2022

a single person, a couple, a business, or a retirement plan) and the date on which the agreement will become effective. To start, the agreement should contain basic information about the adviser-client relationship, including who the client is (e.g., The agreement should also lay out some acknowledgments for the client to review.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 25, 2022

Yet despite this – and perhaps even because of it – advisory firms are putting an ever-greater focus on financial planning in 2022, as a way to both show value to clients in the midst of difficult market returns, and, more broadly, to help clients navigate the current environment.

Education 244

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 24, 2022

a single person, a couple, a business, or a retirement plan) and the date on which the agreement will become effective. To start, the agreement should contain basic information about the adviser-client relationship, including who the client is (e.g., The agreement should also lay out some acknowledgments for the client to review.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 16, 2024

Thomas is the co-founder of AllStreet Wealth, a financial planning firm for millennial business owners and those with equity comp based in Indianapolis, IN, that has quickly grown to more than $500,000 of run-rate revenue generated from serving 70 ongoing client households. My guest on today's podcast is Thomas Kopelman.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 26, 2023

The 1st category of tasks that advisory firms must handle involves renewing their registration with the applicable state(s) in which they do business each year, which typically involves submitting select documents (e.g.,

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 26, 2023

The 1st category of tasks that advisory firms must handle involves renewing their registration with the applicable state(s) in which they do business each year, which typically involves submitting select documents (e.g.,

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 30, 2023

Tim is a Managing Partner for the Center for Financial Planning, a hybrid advisory firm based in Southfield, Michigan, that oversees $1.5 Welcome back to the 335th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Tim Wyman. billion in assets under management for 1,000 client households.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 13, 2023

Danika is the President and Founder for Xena Financial Planning, a virtual advisory firm that advises 40 client households of women in tech and supports more than $275K of ongoing revenue. Welcome back to the 337th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Danika Waddell.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 4, 2023

Melissa is the Founder of Pearl Planning, an independent RIA based in Dexter, Michigan, that oversees more than $175 million in assets under management for 251 client households. Welcome back to the 340th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Melissa Joy.

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James Hendries

DECEMBER 25, 2022

A well-crafted business plan can be a blueprint for entrepreneurial confidence. This multifaceted tool is as important to established business owners looking to grow their companies as it is to budding entrepreneurs. A business plan defines your business, outlines your goals, and lays a strong foundation for achieving them.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 3, 2023

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: All-in-one software platform Blueleaf has launched a new “aggregation-as-a-service” solution, promising better client data aggregation capabilities than existing solutions by automating the process of weaving multiple (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 6, 2024

This month's edition kicks off with the news that self-directed retirement planning software provider NewRetirement has raised a $20M Series A round as the company demonstrates that its DIY tools really do turn a subset of consumers into bona fide prospects for financial advisors.

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Yardley Wealth Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Whether you’re driven by a passion for a specific craft or an innovative idea, taking the leap into entrepreneurship requires careful planning and thoughtful consideration. Before diving into the business world, it’s crucial to have a clear understanding of what it takes to succeed. Hosts Madison Demora : Podcast producer and co-host.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 28, 2023

While many RIAs have already tackled some of the bigger issues around the conversion such as informing clients of the changes and updating regulatory documents, there are still some operational intricacies in the TD Ameritrade to Schwab transition process for advisors to address that could cause headaches if they're missed.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

While there is some overlap between the specific documents to be submitted for those registering with the SEC as opposed to the states, the universe of documents is far from identical. Notably, along with certain standardized forms (e.g., Read More.

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The Big Picture

MAY 20, 2025

Then you get a graduate degree from MIT and you go to Harvard Business School. What was the career plan? 00:01:42 [Speaker Changed] The career plan originally was urban development and transportation. So it took three years to break even when my business plan had it at one. We have everything documented in detail.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We will also be hiring a new Director of Advisor Education, Instructional DesigNerd, and Director of Advisor research soon to support our efforts to provide the best educational content for Advicers.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 2, 2023

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: Docupace launches an ‘RIA Productivity Toolkit’ as it increasingly expands beyond its document management roots in a bid to become more of the back-office workflow engine of small-to-mid-sized advisor enterprises.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 21, 2023

Ultimately, the key point is that an investment adviser’s code of ethics is not just a pro forma document, but rather a key part of ensuring that the firm is living up to its fiduciary duty to its clients.

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MazumaBusinessAccounting

JULY 15, 2021

That’s why I wanted to put together these tips to help you stay on top of your finances while growing a successful business. Plan for Current Business Needs. First, let’s talk about the importance of a business plan. How does an idea develop into a fully functioning business? Tax Planning.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 5, 2024

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: Envestnet has announced that it is being acquired and taken private in a $4.5

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Diamond Consultants

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Therefore, it’s wise for advisors to think proactively and strategically about their businesses to avoid being caught off-guard and then scrambling to figure out a Plan B. Be rigorous with documenting notes around all client interactions. Plus, the path to success is often not a linear one. Be a model corporate citizen.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 16, 2024

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Christi provides families with 4 primary pillars of administrative family office services – bookkeeping for their personal financial household, payroll for household employees, property management for their multiple homes, and information and document management – in order to both manage the day-to-day (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 4, 2024

Freeman is the Co-Founder of La Crosse Financial Planning, an RIA based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, that oversees nearly $50 million in assets under management (AUM) for 73 client households. Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 388th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Freeman Linde. Read More.

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