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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 that is a very simple, it’s easy to communicate, and it’s very clear. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces. And I also prefer simple.

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

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First, it is important for firm owners to create a regularly scheduled process to reassess fees and communicate them to their clients. But by reassessing fees and communicating the advisor’s value and any fee changes to clients on a regular basis, firm owners can feel more confident that a fee increase will be successful!

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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” It’s constant communication through the year. And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” How Matthew Communicated His Transition And Migrated Clients [29:08]. Michael: So, share with me a little more just how you communicated this.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. It’s part of their own tax planning. ” It wasn’t that they didn’t communicate that. Both people are kicking money in. So Warren wanted to announce this at his annual meeting every year. SEIDES: Correct.

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Resetting Work/Life Balance By Getting Paid For Expertise

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And one of the flyers that came out said that I did estate planning, and tax planning, 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.

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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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Transcript: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

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. You know, I also had, you know, my, my chief of staff, my chief of communications, Ashley Hickeys, she, she was over the top amazing. She left there, she became a crisis communications expert.

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