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Leveraging Structured Notes To Differentiate A Solo Practice

CFO News Room

What’s unique about Anh, though, is how, as a solo advisor, she differentiates her firm by leveraging the combination of a high-touch concierge approach to client service with a unique investment management approach through the use of very carefully chosen structured notes to differentiate her portfolio design from other advisors.

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Customer Concentration

CFO Simplified

Customer concentration had become an ever-bigger problem as borrowing increased. Significant Findings and Recommendations: Reduce Customer Concentration. Many companies view 20% of your total sales as a limit on customer concentration. If that is the case, then you need to seriously evaluate your current customer concentration.

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#FA Success Ep 293: Jumpstarting Growth By Showing Up Differently Where Prospects Are (Digitally) Concentrated, With Anna N’Jie-Konte

Nerd's Eye View

What's really unique about Anna, though, is how she accelerated her early growth to $400,000 of revenue by not just trying to build her own podcast audience, but leveraging her reach by appearing on other existing podcasts that already had a sizable audience, coupled with developing her own virtual conference that worked with financial influencers (..)

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (June 8-9)

Nerd's Eye View

Nonetheless, respondents (particularly those in younger generations) do not see this as an either-or choice, but rather anticipate benefitting from working with human advisors who leverage AI tools for certain tasks (e.g., detecting fraud or analyzing data) to provide a better client experience!

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (February 24-25)

Nerd's Eye View

Which suggests that instead of trying to go head-to-head with these larger firms (and their heftier marketing budgets) in attracting clients, smaller firms might instead demonstrate how they are 'different' by offering a unique service offering tailored to their ideal target clients.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (June 29-30)

Nerd's Eye View

Also in industry news this week: How the SEC could target dually registered firms for enforcement of their duties to care for and manage conflicts of interest under Regulation Best Interest and the Investment Advisers Act to send a message to the industry and to clarify its expectations for these "dual-hatted" firms and their advisors Why a shift in (..)

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Tales from the Dark Side

Barry Ritholtz

Say what you will about Cathy Woods and ARKK, but a concentrated portfolio like hers makes more sense as a satellite to Vanguard’s Total Stock Market Index ETF (VTI) or the S&P 500 (SPY) versus this unholy mess of high-cost high turnover SMA.