Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In order to deliver the best service to their clients, financial advisors often take on responsibilities beyond giving financial advice, including compliance, marketing, team management, and other operational duties. Over time, this can easily lead to overwhelm – or, eventually, even burnout.

Prioritization 67

Prioritization Benchmarking Compliance Numbers 67

Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 7, 2023

Also in industry news this week: FINRA has announced that, on the heels of its first enforcement action under the Reg BI rules, it will be ramping up its examinations of broker-dealers for potential violations (after a long period of relative leniency when firms were still determining how best to comply with the rule) A recent study from Ameriprise (..)

Prioritization 98

Prioritization Practice Management Auditing Communication 98

Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 23, 2024

financial planning, CRM, portfolio management), while taking a more tailored approach to selecting tech in other categories. The survey found that most firms fall into the middle category, utilizing tech in categories that provide an assessed high return on investment (e.g.,

Prioritization 98

Prioritization Practice Management Budgeting Investments 98

Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In Jake's case, after deciding that he was overservicing clients during the earlier years of his practice, he started scheduling fewer standard meetings and limited the number of after-meeting action items, freeing up his time and mental bandwidth for other activities to grow and run his firm.

Prioritization 98

Prioritization Auditing Planning Leverage 98

Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Notably, though, at 4 employees and beyond, the number of clients per lead advisor tends to go down from its peak of 96, as teams at this size typically begin to add another lead advisor. Advisors who have never hired before may have little idea of what to expect once they do decide to hire.

Prioritization 98

Prioritization Leverage Planning Practice Management 98

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Because I know a number of firms that do have some amount of 401(k) business do have a wealth offering and have struggled to figure out how to systematically or efficiently get clients to switch over, or move over, or cross over when it’s appropriate for them to do so. .” Michael: Interesting.

Education 130

Education Planning Numbers Securities 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But no sooner did I start helping people in this layoff situation, I realized, number one, you gotta have empathy. I’ve been to well over 600, almost 700…I’m loose with my numbers here, but over 700 companies in the last 20 years, if not more. You’ve gotta have a deep empathy. Michael: Yeah. John: Yeah.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 130

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Planning Marketing Securities 130