Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 21, 2023

Brenda is a financial planner with Objective Financial Partners, an advice-only advisory firm based in Ontario, Canada, that works with clients on project-based financial plans, and also offers outsourced paraplanning to other Canadian advisory firms. My guest on today's podcast is Brenda Hiscock.

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Financial Advice Insurance Financial Advisor Financial Planning 245

Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 20, 2023

But even as fee-only financial planning has gained in popularity and advisory firm websites have become ubiquitous, it can still sometimes be hard for prospective clients to determine how much they would pay for advice before actually reaching out to the firm. the complexity of the prospect’s financial situation).

Communication 227

Communication Planning Financial Planning Fee Only 227

Nerd's Eye View

MAY 8, 2023

In this post, Kitces.com Senior Financial Planning Nerd Ben Henry-Moreland writes about how he went from being hesitant to offer tax preparation at his solo RIA (given how common it is for tax preparers to work long hours throughout tax season) to embracing it as a core part of the business’ service offering.

Taxes 225

Taxes Financial Planning Financial Advisor Clients 225

Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This month's edition kicks off with the news that WiserAdvisor, one of the longest-running lead generation services in the industry, has acquired IndyFin, a startup advisor rating platform that had aspired to be the 'Yelp for Advisors' – which on the one hand provides WiserAdvisor with an opportunity to jump into the business of client reviews (..)

Startup 221

Startup Financial Advisor Clients Financial Planning 221

Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 6, 2023

Welcome to the March 2023 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors!

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Compliance Financial Planning Planning Financial Advisor 193

Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 6, 2023

One of the benefits of owning a financial planning business is an advisor’s ability to control their work schedule. For instance, an advisor might purposefully limit the number of clients they service in order to have the flexibility of only working a certain number of hours each week (e.g., Read More.

Clients 169

Clients Communication Financial Planning Numbers 169

Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 23, 2022

From gradually raising the RMD age to 75 to expanding opportunities to make Roth-style contributions, to increasing the annual limit for Qualified Charitable Distributions, this legislation will likely impact nearly all financial planning clients!

Financial Planner 200

Financial Planner Retirement Planning Financial Planning Distribution 200

Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 3, 2022

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: Ethic Investing raises a $50M Series C round as values-based “personalized indexing” through direct indexing tools continues to gain momentum.

Commission 217

Commission Financial Planning Ethics Planning 217

Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Also in industry news this week: While the FPA is going full steam ahead on its federal and state lobbying efforts to regulate the title “financial planner”, CFP Board is more focused on increasing recognition of the CFP marks. How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive.

Financial Planner 227

Financial Planner CFP Financial Advisor Retirement Planning 227

Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 15, 2024

Growing an advisory firm is no easy task – and advisors who start firms often have few resources to spare (beyond their own knowledge and time), face huge to-do lists, and are required to wear a number of hats.

Marketing 161

Marketing Marketing Engineering Media 161

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?)

Estate Planning 186

Estate Planning Financial Planning Wealth Management Clients 186

Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As a first step, the most important is to gather data around whatever activity it is that the advicer is doing to attract new prospects (such as the number of podcasts produced, webinars hosted, blog posts published, networking meetings attended, or cold calls made). Read More.

Marketing 179

Marketing Marketing Sales Clients 179

Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mindy is the owner of Creative Money, an independent RIA based in Seattle, Washington, that offers a unique 12-month financial planning engagement – or as Mindy puts it on her homepage, “financial planning that doesn’t suck” – which has allowed her firm to work with nearly 400 client households just this year.

Fee Only 130

Fee Only Clients Financial Planning Financial Advisor 130

Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 2, 2022

We also talk about how, despite his deep roots in portfolio management as a trader, Matthew has built the center of his “virtual family office” solution for high-net-worth clients around their financial planning advice, why Matthew and his firm choose to outsource their financial plan preparation and other back-office services so that they (..)

Clients 173

Clients Financial Advisor Financial Planning Portfolio Management 173

Nerd's Eye View

JULY 19, 2022

What's unique about Andrew, though, is how he, as a financial advisor with autism, has built a firm with a specialized niche of autistic and other neurodivergent clients, helping them navigate their unique and complex financial planning challenges.

Financial Advisor 226

Financial Advisor Clients Financial Planning Insurance 226

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 174

Education Financial Planning Estate Planning CFP 174

Nerd's Eye View

JULY 31, 2023

In this post, Kitces Senior Financial Planning Nerd Ben Henry-Moreland offers a framework that solo advisory firm owners can use to decide when their firm will be ready to make an initial hire, based on data from Kitces Research on Advisor Productivity and Advisor Wellbeing as well as industry benchmarking studies on advisor capacity.

Clients 215

Clients Planning Numbers Financial Advisor 215

Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 9, 2024

In this episode, we talk in-depth about what Kimberly learned through entering and then exited a business relationship with her husband that was, unfortunately for her, not structured in a way to fully protect her claim to the clients and revenue of the practice, what Kimberly did to turn her career around through honing in on her ideal target client (..)

Financial Advisor 199

Financial Advisor Financial Planner Clients Food 199

Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Data from the 2022 Kitces Research Study on “How Financial Planners Actually Do Financial Planning” provide some answers about what advisors can expect when going beyond a solo practice, shedding light on the impact that hiring has on advisor capacity.

Financial Planner 225

Financial Planner Clients Planning Financial Planning 225

Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 2, 2023

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: Holistiplan, after achieving success with its tax planning and analysis software, has announced an investment from Lead Edge Capital, signaling that it may be ready to expand into other financial planning areas beyond tax – (..)

Communication 219

Communication Portfolio Management Clients Tax Planning 219

Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 5, 2024

We also talk about Rob's journey from getting an undergrad in Kinesiology and starting med school to moving into accounting and then ultimately becoming a financial planner through the program at UCLA (because financial planning was the perfect blend of helping people the way he wanted to in medicine, and working with numbers the way he did in accounting), (..)

Clients 130

Clients Financial Advisor Medicine Financial Planner 130

Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 4, 2023

Financial advisors have a wide range of strategies at their disposal to create financial plans for their clients. This strategy is valuable because it generally allows for higher initial withdrawal rates than more static approaches that don’t accommodate clients willing to adjust their spending in retirement.

Retirement 226

Retirement Distribution Retirement Planning Asset Allocation 226

Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 13, 2023

Welcome back to the 337th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! 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. My guest on today's podcast is Danika Waddell.

Financial Advisor 243

Financial Advisor Clients Startup Financial Planning 243

Nerd's Eye View

JULY 3, 2023

This month's edition kicks off with the news that Pershing X has announced the launch of its long-awaited (and newly renamed) “Wove” advisor technology platform – which despite purporting to be an open-architecture, multi-custodian solution allowing advisors to smoothly integrate all the technology they choose to bring onto it, in (..)

Estate Planning 221

Estate Planning Media Clients Wealth Management 221

Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how, even though it is admittedly more time consuming for her firm, Anh conducts extensive due diligence and analysis to integrate structured notes into her client portfolios and ladders them on a rolling quarterly basis so that clients can continuously reinvest at then-current rates and features, why Anh decided (..)

Estate Planning 228

Estate Planning Financial Advisor Financial Services Clients 228

Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 31, 2022

While many financial advisors may have focused primarily on portfolio management at one time, the evolution of the financial planning profession has opened up an ever-growing number of services that advisors now offer to their clients on a regular basis.

Clients 130

Clients Insurance Coverage Portfolio Management Financial Advisor 130

Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For which Elements has positioned itself as an early leader that is now gaining momentum.

B2B 194

B2B Financial Advice Clients Planning 194

MazumaBusinessAccounting

JULY 15, 2021

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? It takes vision, work, and a good plan. For entrepreneurs, we call this map a business plan. Creating a marketing plan.

Business Planning 105

Business Planning Taxes Planning Retirement 105

Steve Sanduski

APRIL 8, 2023

What’s your retirement number? Back in 2008, ING ran a “Your Number” marketing campaign with print, web, and TV ads showing different people busy with their daily routines carrying a large orange six- or seven-figure number in dollars. Imagine that you arrived at your number. Pick a number in your head.

Retirement Planning 52

Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Certified Financial Planner 52

Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

For instance, some firms spread these meetings out throughout the year while others bunch them into a limited number of months, or even weeks. Ultimately, the key point is that just as no single planning strategy is applicable for every client, no single practice management technique is appropriate for every financial planning firm.

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Clients Financial Planning Planning Financial Advisor 246

Sara Grillo

MAY 23, 2022

I am an irreverent and fun marketing consultant for financial advisors. What is an advice-only financial planner? Advice-only financial planning is fee-only comprehensive financial planning without the expectation or even the option to manage any client investments. ” Well, now it is.

Financial Planner 52

Financial Planner CFP Financial Planning Education 52

Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 27, 2022

or how the limiting of in-person workshops during the pandemic has inspired John to offer financial planning and has increased opportunities for his firm to grow and scale even further, then we hope you enjoy this episode of the Financial Advisor Success podcast, with John Stokes.

Financial Advisor 130

Financial Advisor Financial Planning Clients Planning 130

Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 17, 2022

And while there is no standard ‘template’ language applicable to all advisory agreements, there are a number of best practices that RIAs can follow in drafting and reviewing their agreements to ensure they can pass legal and regulatory muster.

Clients 191

Clients Assets Financial Planning Management 191

Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 17, 2022

And while there is no standard ‘template’ language applicable to all advisory agreements, there are a number of best practices that RIAs can follow in drafting and reviewing their agreements to ensure they can pass legal and regulatory muster.

Clients 150

Clients Assets Financial Planning Management 150

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 19, 2022

RAMPULLA: I went to Drexel part time while I was at Vanguard, did that commute down to Philadelphia from the suburbs, you know, three times a week for a number of years. I was employee number one in London. And it was just really fun to build that business. They’ll do tax planning, right? RAMPULLA: Yeah.

Financial Advisor 277

Financial Advisor Clients Taxes Investing 277