Marketing and Communications
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Sallie Krawcheck: How to Increase Your Firm’s Diversity
By Danielle AndrusHiring multicultural advisors is good for clients and firms, an Edward Jones Survey found. But how do you cultivate diversity? Sallie Krawcheck offers concrete steps.
January 06, 2014
What High Client Acquisition Costs Mean to Serving the MassesHow the high cost affects planners economics, how big RIAs and robo-advisors are responding, and the possible impact of a fiduciary standard for all.
January 04, 2014
Why Financial Planning Can’t Be Offered to the MassesIn part one of a series, we explore the root cause for why advisors cant extend services to more Americans. It's not what you think.
January 03, 2014
An Age-by-Age Guide to Teaching Clients’ Children About MoneyMoney talk in some families is almost as taboo as sex talk, providing advisors an opportunity to educate clients and build relationships that last generations.
December 31, 2013
Is the Profession Really Concerned With Rebuilding Investor Trust?A broader discussion of the trust imperative for the advisory professionand the appropriate subsequent concrete actionsis needed, and advisors need to lead the way.
December 30, 2013
Steps I’m Taking to Make 2014 the Year of the ClientUsing some free and inexpensive applications, Ill be able to get good intel on what my clients think, and then deliver great service.
December 27, 2013
How to Obliterate the Cost of CollegeWant a Stanford education without the $59,000 a year price tag? The growth in massive open online courses (MOOCs) now makes that possible.
December 26, 2013
3 Steps Advisors Can Take to Help Clients Pay for CollegeA competent advisor should help clients not only save for college, but pay for it as well, easily saving clients tens of thousands of dollars.