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How to Optimize Your Business for Growth and Success: 8 Questions Advisors Need to Ask Themselves

How to Optimize Your Business for Growth and Success: 8 Questions Advisors Need to Ask Themselves

By Mindy Diamond, WealthManagement.com – Rising above the day-to-day tasks of your “job” to invest time in thoughtful strategizing and planning can be the gamechanger you’ve been looking for.

One Outcome Of The Pandemic? For Financial Advisors, It’s New Opportunities At Home—And Beyond

One Outcome Of The Pandemic? For Financial Advisors, It’s New Opportunities At Home—And Beyond

By Mindy Diamond, Forbes.com – Financial advisors are using this “work from home” environment as an opportunity to evaluate their firms as well as their own business lives. But what happens when firms start reopening?

How Financial Advisors Can Free Themselves Of The Assumptions That Might Be Holding Them Back

How Financial Advisors Can Free Themselves Of The Assumptions That Might Be Holding Them Back

By Mindy Diamond, Forbes.com – The process of considering change is a complex one, where an advisor’s goals often conflict with preconceived notions—the latter of which can take hold, distracting him from focusing on what’s best for the business overall. It’s a mind game that many get stuck playing, essentially driven by FEAR: That is, False Evidence Appearing Real. Deep down, they know it’s time to make a change, but are fixated on what they think “might happen” if they do.

3 Options for Advisors who are Feeling “Stuck” After Having Signed on the Dotted Line

3 Options for Advisors who are Feeling “Stuck” After Having Signed on the Dotted Line

By Mindy Diamond, WealthManagement.com – In today’s increasingly competitive marketplace, brokerage firms have doubled down on their efforts to retain top talent. With a vast arsenal of retention tools at the ready, advisors regularly face choices that solidify their obligations – as well as their assets – to the firms they work for.

The Handwriting on the Wall: What is Your Firm Trying to Tell You?

The Handwriting on the Wall: What is Your Firm Trying to Tell You?

By Mindy Diamond – Over the years, there have been many signs and signals sent from firms that advisors may have dismissed or ignored. As such, they also missed a chance to discern the real meaning or intent—and their opportunity to take a more strategic and proactive stance.

Gaining Scale: Why it Matters to Your Advisory Practice

Gaining Scale: Why it Matters to Your Advisory Practice

By Louis Diamond – While bigger isn’t always better, the fact remains that smaller independent practices can benefit by understanding the example set by larger firms when it comes to “scale.” Simply put, most larger RIAs have optimized the management of capital, infrastructure, buying power and resources, resulting in a well-oiled machine that has mastered an optimal balance of organic and inorganic growth.

Surviving Due Diligence: 10 Tips for Financial Advisors

Surviving Due Diligence: 10 Tips for Financial Advisors

By Barbara Herman – It’s quite evident that the industry landscape has expanded dramatically—and an advisor in exploration mode has more to consider than ever before. As a result, it may be a daunting task for most to face the prospect of performing due diligence. Nonetheless, there is value in periodically exploring to gain an understanding of the legitimate options that exist—whether you’re thinking of moving or not.

“I hate what’s going on at my firm, but…”

“I hate what’s going on at my firm, but…”

By Barbara Herman and Allison Brunwasser – We’re accustomed to having advisors speak candidly and confidentially to us, sharing the things that annoy or disappoint them most about their firms, the industry and about being an advisor. But over the past 6 to 12 months, advisors have become more vocal about areas of discontent. That is, more seem to openly admit that they’re not happy with their firm.

What’s Changing at the Wirehouses—and Why You Need to Pay Attention

What’s Changing at the Wirehouses—and Why You Need to Pay Attention

By Mindy Diamond – As firms cut back on recruiting and amp up their retention efforts, the balance of power shifts further and further away from the advisors—diminishing leverage, business value and opportunity, and leading down a path that advisors fear most.

“I’m too old to move, let alone go independent!”

“I’m too old to move, let alone go independent!”

By Mindy Diamond – Certainly, none of us are getting any younger—and no one wants to make their life more challenging as they edge closer to what could be the cusp of their career.

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