Wealth Management

JUNE 20, 2025

Fynancial , which refers to itself as a digital experience platform, won Best in Show. We have a serious communication problem in the industry, and it can be really hard to get hold of clients,” he said, noting that with his technology, advisors can see their clients go to the app every day.

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 24, 2025

We have provided an onboarding plan template for advisors to download, which breaks up the skills list into two primary categories: 1) client communication skills (e.g., One effective way to structure the onboarding process is to organize the skills that the associate advisor will ideally learn in their first year into key categories.

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Midstream Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It’s important to offer great rewards and make it easy for clients to refer their friends. Introduction In the busy area of financial advisory services, getting new clients is important for success. It helps to grow their client base. Referrals help get new business and build strong ties with clients.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Stacey is the chief operating officer of Morton Wealth, an RIA based in Calabasas, California, that oversees approximately $3 billion in assets under management for 1,300 client households. My guest on today's podcast is Stacey McKinnon.

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Steve Sanduski

DECEMBER 11, 2024

01 What Triggers the Need to Transition Clients to a New Advisor? Transitioning clients between advisors within a financial firm can be a challenging and emotionally charged process. Eventually, Erin realized that in order to grow further and ensure the highest quality of service, he needed to transition his clients to other advisors.

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FMG

MARCH 6, 2025

AI-powered search, social media algorithms, and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) are transforming how potential clients find financial advisors. Instead, you should be asking, “How do I ensure clients find my financial services wherever they search? Traditional SEO strategies alone are no longer enough.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 20, 2025

Related: The WealthStack Podcast: The Future of Personalized Portfolio Management with Govinda Quish “Estate planning is one of the things that advisors [repeatedly] tell us that they found immediate value in [post-merger] because it is part of the turnkey [Mercer] offering and does not mean referring a client outside the firm,” said Orff.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 7, 2025

market while differentiating on its AI-driven "Strategic Advice Manager" that automatically suggests (and even recommends) planning strategies based on client inputs – which could serve as an interesting test as to whether U.S.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This sounds like you’re referring to fitness alpha helps you make better decisions, especially in times of volatility. I’ve had numerous clients who’ve come to me with, uh, metabolic health problems with, uh, alcohol and other substance problems. Do they affect us behaviorally? Absolutely.

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Harness Wealth

MARCH 14, 2025

For many small tax firms, the process of collecting client tax documents can be a time-consuming and a prolonged process. Tax advisors often find themselves sending multiple reminders, following up on incomplete files, and waiting for clients to gather the necessary paperwork. Read more about Kelley Maddoxs success here.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 4, 2025

Over the last couple of months or so, we've been talking about how the crazy high yielding, single stock, covered call ETFs are not proxies for their underlying or reference securities. Instead, they are products that sell the volatility of their underlying or reference securities. Big difference.

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Diamond Consultants

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Supported RIAs are commonly (and loosely) referred to by an array of different names, such as Platform RIAs, Service Providers, Outsourced Solutions, Tuck-ins, Aggregators, and Roll-upsamong others. For the purpose of this article, we will refer to all of these as Supported RIAs.

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Midstream Marketing

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By keeping them in your car, you can seamlessly share your contact information with potential clients or partners that you meet at networking events. Look into digital marketing steps like boosting your website and email marketing to get new clients. This will help you connect better with potential clients.

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Harness Wealth

JUNE 27, 2025

Interested in using Harness at your tax firm, or know a tax firm you’d like to refer to Harness? As automation accelerates and client expectations evolve, firms that remain focused solely on compliance are being left behind. Schedule an introduction today. What does it really take to build a future-ready tax firm?

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Wealth Management

JUNE 11, 2025

Ratner June 11, 2025 2 Min Read A client whose estate will remain non-taxable after 2025 has a policy in an irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) that was presumably purchased for estate tax liquidity. It’s also an opportunity with not one but two, built-in time-sensitive calls to action by the client.

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Investment Writing

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Refer to Treasury bonds, Treasury notes, and so on. When The Wall Street Journal spells it that way, that legitimizes it in my eyes. If you can’t bear not knowing what’s 100% correct, then use the workaround that Harriett Magee suggests. It’s bit wordy, but correct.

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 2, 2025

a ski chalet), assessing whether it will lead to greater overall wellbeing, or, alternatively, more stress, is more challenging Enjoy the 'light' reading! a ski chalet), assessing whether it will lead to greater overall wellbeing, or, alternatively, more stress, is more challenging Enjoy the 'light' reading!

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Harness Wealth

DECEMBER 30, 2024

With our team analyzing the specific circumstances of each client and situation, we can help optimize tax strategies, identify potential pitfalls, and ensure compliance. Find your tax advisor at Harness Sign up for our annual tax services or book a call with one of our experts today. Starting at $1,500 per year.

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Diamond Consultants

DECEMBER 16, 2024

So, what can advisors do to ensure a successful client transition from one generation to the next? Many advisors (and their clients) are more comfortable in the traditional firm/wirehouse world. But is that fair? After all, shouldnt the retiring advisors be compensated fairly for their lifes work?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 8, 2025

His firm runs over $10 billion in client crypto assets. Barry Ritholtz : You’re really suggesting where like 1993 and the internet is that, is that a good frame of reference? . ~~~ About this weeks guest: Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management discusses the best ways to responsibly manage crypto assets.

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NAIFA Advisor Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

A much-anticipated feature of this edition is the annual indexed retirement and Social Security numbers for 2025, conveniently presented in an easy-to-reference table.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

His firm runs over $10 billion in client crypto assets. He is the chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, the firm manages over 10 billion in client assets in crypto. What the halving refers to, Barry, is that every four years. Let’s start with just the basics, Matt. It dropped in half.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Standpoint fund is a client and personal holding that I write about frequently. In its description of QAISX, RCM refers to it as an absolute return fund but I didn't find that term on the fund's page. It seems similar to client holding BOXX. The Q3 All Seasons Tactical has symbol QAITX.

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Midstream Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2025

You may have heard of this referred to as the "Marketing Rule," as that is primarily what it has been focused on for so many years. If a testimonial talks about how profitable your services are, for example, this needs to be true of ALL of your clients – not just the person leaving the review.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MAY 15, 2025

Price Action Lab had a blog post that amusingly referred to managed futures as being a long term commitment. Most client accounts have a stand alone managed futures fund and the weight is low single digits. Most client accounts also own BLNDX in a similar weighting.

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Harness Wealth

MARCH 6, 2025

A key first step is creating a clear, written contract with each client, explicitly stating your status as a freelancer or independent contractor. Legally, your clients are only legally required to issue a 1099-NEC for payments exceeding $600. You need to actively inform the IRS of your new status.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

JULY 17, 2025

Do you think CFA Level 1 is worth it for someone going into advising mainly to better understand markets and explain them to clients? Obviously, investment management plays a huge role in the financial planning process but it’s certainly not the only thing advisors help their clients with.

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Harness Wealth

MARCH 7, 2025

Financial advisors often focus on high net worth clients whose wealth stretches far beyond that eligibility. However, they also frequently work with clients whose businesses sponsor employer retirement plans that must adjust their systems and raise workers’ awareness to enable them to fully tap into their benefits.

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Harness Wealth

APRIL 30, 2025

They receive copies of W-2s from employers, 1099s from clients, and other income-reporting documents. Harness Tax LLC is affiliated with Harness Wealth Advisers LLC, collectively referred to as “Harness Wealth” Harness Wealth Advisers LLC is a paid promoter, internet registered investment adviser.

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Harness Wealth

JULY 16, 2025

In this article, we’ll examine how tax firms can transform their client list from a simple roster into an engine for growth, and how platforms like Harness can aid in the process. It also captures the inherent, ongoing value that tax advisors provide their clients, which goes beyond simply trading hours for dollars.

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Harness Wealth

JANUARY 10, 2025

At Harness we help clients find tax advisors with the expertise required to meet their unique needs. Harness Tax LLC is affiliated with Harness Wealth Advisers LLC, collectively referred to as “Harness Wealth” or Harness. Find your tax advisor at Harness While social media has its uses, tax advice may not be its forte.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JANUARY 26, 2025

The article was thin but there was a reference to his "holy grail" of 10-15 uncorrelated assets in portfolio construction. Here's a dozen of them I didn't include a straight inverse fund but client/personal holding BTAL does something very similar as does VIXM. In certain instances, client/personal holding MERIX would be fine at 10%.

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Indigo Marketing Agency

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The cat were referring to in the case of financial advisors is leads, booked appointments , and new clients to grow your practice. Thats why were sharing seven of the top SEO strategies for financial advisors that are working right now to boost targeted traffic, leads, appointments, and new client acquisition.

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Harness Wealth

JANUARY 29, 2025

For self-employed individuals : Consider delaying invoicing or billing clients so that payments are received beyond the current tax year. Effective ways to achieve this include: For employees : If your employer offers this option, request that your year-end bonus be deferred to January 2026.

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SEI

JULY 14, 2025

Featured Who we serve right-arrow arrow-sm-down left-arrow Back Who we serve We help our clients across financial services make confident decisions and power growth. Asset management Connecting investors to what matters most, so they can achieve their goals and make confident decisions.

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Hubly

JULY 15, 2025

You think you’re ready to open the account, but instead you're chasing missing fields, resending forms, and explaining delays to a client who's already wondering if they made the right choice. These errors don’t just slow down paperwork, they disrupt your entire client experience. The good news?

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Fortune Financial

JUNE 4, 2025

Thanks to rising incomes and innovations such as the Boeing 747, which Bill Gates referred to as the “ first world wide web “, affordable air travel became a reality for the masses. At time of publication, both the author and clients of Fortune Financial Advisors, LLC own shares of HEICO.

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