Marketing and Communications
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Making a Marketing Plan
By Bill GoodWhile prospecting is certainly essential to your future, you're already spending several hours a day with clients. If you allocate some of that time to...
February 01, 2007
UBS' Take on Fee Work: 'A Lot of Clients Want It'Marten Hoekstra, head of U.S. wealth management for UBS, gives his opinion on the New York Attorney General's recent lawsuit, acquisitions and plans for 2007....
February 01, 2007
Man on a MissionIf it ain't broke, don't fix it. Right? But if it does need fixing -- and some heartfelt TLC -- call on Kenneth M. Ross. He's...
February 01, 2007
The Science of InvestingFinance theory says: The only way to beat the market is by knowing what others don't. Few fight me on that. But in today's ?ber-connected...
February 01, 2007
Advisor Directed TrustsHow would you like to offer services akin to the nation's largest banks and trust companies -- with one key difference: You remain the central...
February 01, 2007
Benchmarking for DollarsWhen I lived in Washington, DC in the early 1980s, the fact that I was born in Russia almost always elicited an incredulous reaction. People...
February 01, 2007
The Next Economic CrisisAfter graduate school, I went to work for maverick Wall Street economist A. Gary Shilling. Gary was a follower of the Kondratieff Wave Theory, which...
February 01, 2007
Active PhilanthropyTwo years ago, a school serving 1,300 kids in a Managua, Nicaragua, barrio had one barely working computer, no library and no playground. Today, it...