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#FA Success Ep 341: Bolstering The Quality Of Advice By Deliberately Rotating Advisors For Each Client, With Thor McIlrath

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Thor is the Owner of McIlrath & Eck, an independent RIA based in Arlington, Washington, that oversees more than $610 million in assets under management for 970 client households.

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Identifying Your Own “Soft Assets” To Turn COIs Into Powerful Referral Champions

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Soliciting prospect referrals can often be an effective way for financial advisors to grow their firms with clients who are ready to act and who will benefit from the firm since many referrals come from sources that are familiar not just with the advisor and the services they offer, but also with the prospect being referred and the needs they seek.

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Kitces & Carl Ep 135: Do Experienced Financial Planners Have A Professional Obligation To Create Job Opportunities For The Next Generation?

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Advisor Metrics, Cerulli Associates predicts that 37.5% (or nearly 110,000) of financial advisors will retire over the next 10 years. Which, in turn, has prompted some to wonder if firm owners have a specific obligation to their profession to hire and train next-gen talent. Read More.

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The Future Of Financial Advice: How Tech and Approaches In 2030 Will Differ From Today

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Professional service industries tend to evolve over time as the regulatory environment evolves and new technologies emerge. For instance, the financial advice industry has seen many changes to regulations (for both advisors and their clients), advisor business models, and the advisor technology landscape.

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Summer Reading List Of “Best Books” For Financial Advisors – 2023 Edition

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Firms that were returning to the office have done so, those that are staying remote are remaining as such, and either way most advisory firms have figured out how to continue to service and retain clients, and are slowly adapting to finding new (or reinvigorating old) paths to grow at least slowly once again.

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Kansas-based Integrated Wealth is the Latest Addition to Carson Wealth’s Growing Footprint

Carson Wealth

The deal will provide the firm with enhanced capabilities to better serve clients and grow its wealth management practice, which currently has $400 million in assets under management, and serves more than 250 families in 30 states. While our name may change to Carson Wealth, it won’t change who we are or how we work with our clients.

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Reclaiming Professionalism

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(In fact, it would just give consumers a clearer choice: they could freely choose between somebody who has chosen to be paid to recommend certain products vs. a professional who has given up those conflicts and works purely in the best interests of the client.) Why are we applying that term in our space?