eMoney Advisor

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Here, we take a look at projected job growth for financial advisors, the predicted wave of retirements, the demographics of financial planners, and more. While these are only estimates, not forecasts, the numbers seem promising. A Wave of Retirements Expected. That’s up from 22 percent who said the same in early 2020.

Financial Planner 74

Financial Planner CFP Certified Financial Planner Financial Advisor 74

The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If you think about what Vanguard is all about, we sit there each and every day, figuring out how do we help people retire better, put their kids through college, afford that dream home? And certainly for us, that has been a time to show up and answer the bell for our clients. And so it’s been a real rewarding time.

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Clients Investing Investments Retirement 274

Diamond Consultants

AUGUST 9, 2022

Many advisors dream of going independent for the freedom and flexibility to control their business, client service model, and bottom line. The good news is that there are an increasing number of capital sources available to breakaway advisors to help them launch and scale the business.

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Compliance Recruitment Clients Retirement 59

Diamond Consultants

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For others, it’s about being left alone to freely serve clients as you see put. So what is leaving advisors mired with indecision and uncertainty about whether they are truly in the right place to serve clients and grow their business? I have too many clients.”. I just signed a retire-in-place agreement.”.

Financial Advisor 59

Financial Advisor Clients Recruitment Wealth Management 59

Inside Information

DECEMBER 26, 2023

He published a number of white papers around the turn of the century that predicted a dystopian professional landscape composed of a small handful of giant RIAs and a few smaller firms scurrying under their feet, looking for table scraps. Mark Hurley seems to be addicted to predicting the future.

Wealth Management 40

Wealth Management Clients Management Numbers 40

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Venture capital, private equity, just were not recruiting for those spaces. Wall Street has been pretty bad at recruiting black talent. RITHOLTZ: So is it safe to say that Wall Street, in general, but alternatives like private equity and venture capital, were not recruiting at historically black colleges and universities?

Recruitment 144

Recruitment Engineering Investing Investments 144

Inside Information

MAY 30, 2023

This is the time of year when the various industry magazines come out with their broker-dealer surveys, listing the ‘top’ BD rankings based on total revenues or the number of ‘producing’ reps. National advisory firms collect their own fees directly from clients. The compliance people have to pre-approve their communications.

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Communication Sales Compliance Insurance 40

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. So I applied to Maryland State retirement. And we all had different backgrounds and different investment ideas and different clients like us clients are very different from clients in other countries.

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Assets Management Portfolio Investing 144

Indigo Marketing Agency

JANUARY 24, 2024

Samantha Russell Reason to Follow: A thought leader in financial marketing, empowers advisors to enhance client experiences and forge meaningful connections Samantha Russell is the Chief Evangelist at FMG Suite and Twenty Over Ten. billion in client assets. You can connect with Samantha on LinkedIn here.

Financial Advisor 52

Financial Advisor CFP Financial Services Education 52

Indigo Marketing Agency

JANUARY 24, 2024

Samantha Russell Reason to Follow: A thought leader in financial marketing, empowers advisors to enhance client experiences and forge meaningful connections Samantha Russell is the Chief Evangelist at FMG Suite and Twenty Over Ten. billion in client assets. You can connect with Samantha on LinkedIn here.

Financial Advisor 52

Financial Advisor CFP Financial Services Education 52

The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

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Assets Clients Investing Investments 293

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

BLS recruits, just like all other organizations, recruits at college campuses. So there are a number of us heading in out of college into the BLS. And so our customer base is financial advisors and their underlying clients. And we were doing the same with clients. NORTON: They can be. Please, just go to cash.

Portfolio 130

Portfolio Management Assets Investing 130

Diamond Consultants

OCTOBER 4, 2022

So far, this year has proven that advisors are the real winners as firms have stepped up their games to become attractive landing spots with strong recruitment deals to match. Which firms are winning the recruiting race, and which are losing? Independent firms saw the most success in recruiting— adding 287 advisors on a net basis.

Financial Advisor 52

Financial Advisor Recruitment Wealth Management Consulting 52

The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. And your bio explains how you were recruited to Vanguard. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk about that.

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Portfolio Investing Investments Numbers 130

Diamond Consultants

DECEMBER 20, 2022

That is, clients wanted more from their advisors; advisors wanted more from their firms; and the firms, too, wanted more from their advisors. And based on our own experience (as hard numbers are not yet available), that activity continued throughout the second half of the year, despite volatile market headwinds.

Recruitment 59

Recruitment Compliance Wealth Management Banking 59

SEI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Sanjay has dove right in, Rajiv, and he's been out on the road seeing our clients both domestically and globally. As we actually sign new clients, we need to bring those clients on board. So it kind of seems like that the retirement of Trust3000 is a long ways away. Ryan Hicke: Sure. Then an implementations bucket.

Clients 49

Clients Assets Banking Planning 49

Good Financial Cents

JULY 11, 2022

If you’re unsure what multi-level marketing is, it’s a term used to describe any business model that rewards people for sales and recruiting others to work beneath them. If you can design web pages, write copy, design mailers and client products, or perform other web-based tasks, it’s easy to create a Fiverr profile and get started.

Financial Advisor 116

Financial Advisor Accounting Insurance Media 116

The Big Picture

JUNE 7, 2023

And I as I as someone who has been recruiting in this industry for the past 20 years with my team and we’re working with the biggest, most successful funds in the world, it’s tough. You’ll retire a happy person, your kids. First, focus on putting up the numbers. Andrew Komori, who came out of G.E. Final word.

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Management Investing Investments Economics 272

The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

Ilana Weinstein returns to tell us about all the competitive recruiting and superstar talent she’s been working with over the past couple of years. WEINSTEIN: Let me define what we do, because I feel like a fair misconception might be that as a recruiting firm, our job is to help people find jobs. These are big numbers.

Management 144

Management Recruitment Numbers Banking 144

The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

There’s no corporation that lives its healthy — unless they’re on their way to bankruptcy that lives with single digit equity numbers. RITHOLTZ: And to put some numbers on that, the Internet peak to trough was about 81 percent decline in the NASDAQ comp whereas I think houses fell about 32 percent. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Banking Government Insurance Taxes 201

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And I literally put the entire Schedule A, which is the pricing square footage unit numbers in a Hewlett Packard 41B using bit mapping. Everybody knew the number but the appraiser. MILLER: The term back then was, here’s a good appraiser, good in air quotes and good translated into making the number. Just keep it fair.

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Sales Numbers Taxes Marketing 130

The Irrelevant Investor

AUGUST 17, 2015

billion just over a year on, and some $5 billion of the decline was due to clients voting with their wallets." "The But by discovering a large number of minor inefficiencies and blending them into a single trading program, Renaissance built a system that racked up profits year after year, especially during periods of turbulence.

Marketing 52

Marketing Marketing Recruitment Assets 52

Inside Information

OCTOBER 31, 2022

At the recent Insider’s Forum conference, the number one topic of worried conversation was not the markets, succession planning, or politics. And even in good times, does that other hungry mouth to feed start making decisions about how much (or little) service the firm’s clients need? Don’t they already know all these things?

Financial Planning 40

Financial Planning Recruitment Clients Planning 40

Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

JR: The advisors were as much the victims as their clients were, and the brokerage firm would say they were all inappropriate behavior, so they’re all disclosures. Option rate securities were… 0:14:54.9 So it’s very difficult to do that. It is kind of a case by case thing. What do they have, 90000 plus CFPs?

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CFP Financial Advisor Financial Planner Ethics 59

The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

But when you’ve gone through two-year periods like the tech bubble, and three-year periods like ‘18 through ‘20, I think myself, my family and some of my clients might take issue with the word consistently. You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. RITHOLTZ: Okay. ASNESS: Yeah.

Valuation 167

Valuation Investing Investments Numbers 167

The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

And before you knew it, she was the number one salesperson for selling to professional salons in the whole country. My first job out of law school was at a mid-sized law firm out of Princeton, New Jersey, and I would have clients who wouldn’t call when an issue arose. They just didn’t do that in big numbers back then.

Compliance 157

Compliance Clients Wealth Management Management 157

Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

Once the course is complete, I do some continued marketing and client support which amounts to just a few hours per week, while sales roll in month after month. The idea of passive income is to supplement, augment or get you out of your job so you can retire, travel, or spend more time with loved ones. Same if I build an online course.

Accounting 105

Accounting Investing Investments Media 105

The Big Picture

MAY 2, 2023

FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years. The number one response every single time to this day is for Hodinkee to sell things because they trust us. When it comes to the complexities you are facing, it isn’t just about the numbers. RITHOLTZ: Really very interesting.

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Retail Insurance Advertising Numbers 167