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So, we do look at clients from the complexity of what type of planning they have. Now, everybody, at the end of the day, still needs the same same type of planning in the sense of estate planning, taxplanning, financial planning. Or how do we work around a concentrated stock position, right? ” Right?
And one of the flyers that came out said that I did estate planning, and taxplanning, and business succession planning, and all these things I didn’t know anything about. And so, ultimately, I… Michael: Not actually that deep on your business succession planning experience as a 20-year-old.
SEIDES: No, you’re right about the securities. SEIDES: It wasn’t a question of security prices going down, it’s a question of like, can you transact? It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. It’s part of their own taxplanning.
And the reason that I liked that one, because I’ve sold very few VAs in my career, but I could do the math on how that rider worked on a piece of legal paper and my calculator. But it can’t be a regular brokerage account, because you’re not securities licensed on that side. Stacey: Right. Stacey: Right.
Michael: Well, relative to Zoe just makes things appear on your calendar and rough math, 20 to 30 leads a month can be 6 to 9 new clients a month, and so just you’re answering your phone and Zoe is making 6 to 9 new clients a month appear. Now, for a big firm, like you said, that math can work out really quickly.
Among respondents without an advisor, 27% said they would be interested in receiving help on retirement income planning (27%), Social Security and Medicare advice (22%), developing a financial plan (22%), and tax guidance (21%), though notably tax guidance was the top area cited among those with at least $500,000 in assets.
You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And then we look at estate planning.
You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. So then we decided, look, look, maybe we should put all of these businesses together and create a securities division. And that’s how we created the securities division.
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