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Get Over It
By Staff WriterPerforming a gap analysis on your own practice--discerning the difference between your ideal vision of the practice and its current reality--requires objectivity on your part....
July 01, 2008
Getting EngagedIf you surveyed your clients and 99 percent reported that they were satisfied with your firm, you'd probably be very pleased. However, according to a...
July 01, 2008
Looking Out for Number TwoMaybe some of us are just lucky and end up in the right career. I know I've been passionate about my career over the last...
July 01, 2008
Learning to ListenA couple of years ago, my partner Bob Clark told me about an advisor he knows in Columbia, South Carolina, named James Wilson. A past...
July 01, 2008
United We GrowMost interview subjects wait for the questions to be lobbed in by the journalist. Others--usually the Type A CEO type--launch directly from the introductory pleasantries...
July 01, 2008
Be PositiveConventional wisdom says that in order to practice socially responsible investing one must be willing to accept subpar investment returns, as if doing the right...
July 01, 2008
Portrait of a Branch ManagerIt takes an ultra savvy advisor to service ultra-high-net-worth clients -- and it takes an ultra-talented branch manager to coach top FAs to be even...
July 01, 2008
Catching up with... Mark TibergienIt's a good time to be a seller of an RIA firm, at least a certain kind of RIA firm, according to the latest definitive...