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Adviser links: humble projections

Abnormal Returns

mebfaber.com) Ashby Daniels talks with Hannah Moore about "doing" financial planning. wiredplanning.com) Laurence Kotklikoff talks with David Blanchett about problems with conventional financial planning tools. investmentnews.com) Compliance There's no winning the cybersecurity war, just stalemate.

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An Advisor’s Guide to Termination: A Proactive Approach to Protecting Your Life’s Work

Diamond Consultants

Knowledge is power—particularly in a world where compliance scrutiny has ramped up, and firms prioritize risk reduction over revenue creation. Internal investigations are exactly what they sound like, a review undertaken by your firm’s legal and compliance team to gather the facts surrounding a potential infraction. What are they?

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The Independent Alpha: Making the Breakaway Math Add Up

Diamond Consultants

However, these advisors are simultaneously forgoing massive recruitment bonuses from competing firms and a less labor-intensive transition process. But without growth, it will take many years to offset the “bird in the hand” of a lucrative up-front and back-ended recruitment package.

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Of Myths and Moving 2023

Diamond Consultants

This is Diamond Consultants’ annual endeavor to set the record straight: What are the most common “myths” that can stall an advisor’s plans to realize their full potential? Recruiters have been saying for years that deals are at an all-time high, so I’ll never miss the boat.” There is nothing new and exciting out there.”

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Get a job as a Financial Paraplanner at an RIA firm and ignore the schmucky wirehouse and insurance jobs!

Sara Grillo

For Jonathan Grannick, his first job as a financial paraplanner he found on the University of Georgia student Financial Planning Association listserv. He cold called over 500 financial planning companies over a year or so to get to a full book of clients. What designations does a paraplanner usually have?

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The Path to Independence: 6 Key Elements to Consider Before Starting Your Journey

Diamond Consultants

The notion of taking on the task of managing compliance, technology, HR, and finance is often what stops advisors from going independent. The advent of RIA platforms solves for these concerns, providing breakaway advisors with integrated technology, sophisticated investment and planning solutions, and access to trust and banking capabilities.

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Satisfying an Advisor’s Quest for Independence as an Employee

Diamond Consultants

They want to have a sense of ownership over how they run their practice—including the ability to hire and fire team members, distinguish themselves from their colleagues by marketing their business creatively, and be allowed to run their practice without as much interference from compliance. First, UBS left the Protocol for Broker Recruiting.