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Leveraging Structured Notes To Differentiate A Solo Practice

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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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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. Leveraging Corporate Employee Benefit Workshops To Increase Client Growth [51:13]. The math is probably the easiest part of it.

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

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How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive. We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: While weak stock and bond market performance has challenged advisors and their clients this year, these trends have likely increased the ‘safe’ withdrawal rate for new retirees.

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Outsourcing Lead Generation To Accelerate Growth

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So whether you’re interested in learning about how Dan leveraged online third-party platforms to generate client leads, how he aids his firm in standing out to compete with larger firms, or how he grew his firm to $50M of AUM in close to 3 years, then we hope you enjoy this episode of the Financial Advisor Success podcast, with Dan Callahan.

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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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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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