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Kitces & Carl Ep 154: The Limits Where Technology Can’t Scale Financial Planning Advice

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Just a few decades ago, giving financial advice was largely a manual process – printing lengthy financial plans, processing physical checks, and managing paper files. AI offers exciting possibilities as a brainstorming partner, editor, and copywriter.

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11 Reasons Why People Hire Advisors (And How To Communicate That Value To Prospects)

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Advisors have a relatively brief window of time to communicate their value to prospective clients. This means advisors must communicate both their services and values within a very limited – and not always synchronous – span of time. Financially motivated prospects, meanwhile, benefit from clarity and specificity.

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Kitces & Carl Ep 164: Is Complexity In Financial Planning Necessary To Prove (Young) Advisor Credibility?

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After all, it can feel odd to create an estate plan that will impact a client’s grandchildren… when those grandchildren may be older than the advisor themselves! But walking through every page of a financial plan line by line could take up an entire afternoon and often isn’t necessary.

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Kitces & Carl Ep 152: Advisory Fee Confidence And Building The Happy-Client Stoke File

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Still others may choose a hybrid model, combining AUM fees with additional charges for other services like tax planning. Pricing the impact of financial planning can be challenging, because many of its benefits – like peace of mind – are intangible, compelling in value but difficult to match with an exact price.

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Cerulli: Gen X Presents the Next Great Opportunity for Financial Advisors

Wealth Management

As a result, financial advisors should start honing the services Gen X members will likely benefit from the most, including retirement planning, estate and tax planning and mortgage refinancing. This means financial advisors would be well-served to focus on courting Gen Xers at this pivotal moment in their lives, Horton said.

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Five “Self-Persuasion” Questions To Connect With Prospects Who Say They’re Interested… But Aren’t Moving Forward

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Instead, acknowledging their ambivalence as a natural part of the decision-making process can help create space for them to discover the value of financial planning on their own. One effective way to facilitate this self-discovery is through self-persuasion questions.

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Quinn Signals Another Wave in the Great Advisor Tech Acceleration

Wealth Management

I was amazed by some of the findings, including that 68% of the 414 respondents are currently using or plan to adopt AI-powered tools—only 32% had no plans to do so. Q&A: What Was Behind Schechter’s Decision to Sell to Arax? expansion with significant support from some large firms.