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Dropping A B/D License Without Dropping Current B/D Platform

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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. And so, what we did, and I guess the advantage of being with a broker-dealer is those are now Commonwealth house accounts. Stacey: Absolutely.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 17-18) 2022

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tax planning or deeper retirement planning ) can be a way to increase client satisfaction and encourage them to be vocal advocates for the firm. And while Buffett was naturally gifted in math, he was initially scared of public speaking. But many firms will find that their client referral rates are flat.

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Leveraging Structured Notes To Differentiate A Solo Practice

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For the most part, we also have, out of those 195, a lot of those are also some legacy clients that have been around for a very long time, that maybe have brokerage accounts that are no longer advisory, right, so, but I am including that in there. So, we do look at clients from the complexity of what type of planning they have.

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” ” I’ve seen a lot of industry discussion that’s essentially, the math of it can be better on the RIA side because you just don’t have to pay for the things that you don’t need in your platform.

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Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

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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.

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Outsourcing Lead Generation To Accelerate Growth

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So, I don’t have to have this great call and then at the end of it, tell someone, “Yeah, that all sounds great and if you want that, you move all your accounts over and that’s the only way we’ll work with you. ” And that stuff obviously is extremely helpful going into those phone calls.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

It’s part of their own tax planning. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. RITHOLTZ: But some of these guys are sitting with a lot more than a billion dollars, and why not? Unless they have their own foundation.