What You Need to Know
- Ameriprise has launched an Associate Financial Advisor Business Development Program.
- Advisors in the pilot program added twice as many new clients as their peers did, Ameriprise says.
- The new program follows its launch of a new “Ultimate Advisor Partnership” go-to-market strategy.
Ameriprise Financial has launched a new training program that it said was “designed to advance the development of the next generation of financial advisors, while at the same time driving growth for their practices.”
The new Associate Financial Advisor Business Development Program “sets up” licensed Ameriprise Associate Financial Advisors for “long-term success in the industry by teaching them to consistently deliver a goal-based, premium client experience,” it said Monday.
A pilot of the program was already tested, and 100% of those surveyed after graduating from it said they felt confident in their ability to “begin building a new relationship and understanding someone else’s needs and goals” based on what they learned in the sessions, according to Ameriprise.
Additionally, participants acquired almost twice the number of clients and more than quadrupled the revenue of their peers, it said.
“We ran a pilot in 2019 (July through December) and then expanded the pilot in 2020 (July-December),” a company spokeswoman said Wednesday. The full program became available in January, she added.
The announcement came less than two weeks after the company introduced an “Ultimate Advisor Partnership” go-to-market strategy that it said was developed to help advisors “accelerate growth in their businesses and deliver an excellent and highly referable level of service to clients.”