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How Niches Improve Advisor Marketing Satisfaction And Efficiency

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tax planning or working with blended families), as well as the type of clients they like working with the most. First, an advisor can consider the many niche options from which to choose, including professional (e.g., doctors or employees of a certain company), technical (e.g., equity compensation), values-based (e.g.,

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (October 2023)

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This month's edition kicks off with the news that custodial platform Altruist is eliminating the $1 per account monthly fee for its portfolio management and reporting technology for advisors on its platform, which on the one hand suggests that the economies of scale Altruist has achieved in the wake of its move to become a fully self-clearing custodian (..)

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Nov 19-20)

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A potential compromise during the lame-duck Congressional session could see a boost to the child tax credit and extended tax breaks for businesses. From there, we have several articles on tax planning: How advisors can add value for their clients by managing their exposure to mutual fund capital gains distributions.

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Offering Tax Preparation As A Solo Advisor: How To Attain Designations And Create A Schedule By Next Tax Season

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investment reviews in the summer, retirement projection updates in the fall, and year-end tax planning in the winter) created enough efficiency through systematizing the ongoing financial planning process that allowed him to fit in tax preparation without reducing any of his other service offerings!

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Highlights From The 2024 T3 Advisor Conference

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Digital hygiene, encryption security, and good staff training can all be enormous factors in the overall safety of the company, as explained by Patrick Hennessy, Schwab's Director of Business Consulting. Likewise, while CRM usage has slipped by about 5%, the overall number of advisors who use a CRM still remains at a dominant 92%.

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#FA Success Ep 289: Coming Together As A Partnership To Serve Your Collective Community, With Kamila Elliott

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In this episode, we talk in-depth about how, after years of working in an environment where she saw first-hand how ultra-high-net-worth clients keep and grow their wealth (and the lack of diversity among those clients), Kamila decided to build a practice that focused on providing holistic financial planning to communities of color with emerging wealth, (..)

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#FA Success Ep 297: From $0 To $70M In 2 Years By Leveraging Facebook Groups To Share Authentic Expertise, With Andy Panko

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