AI for Financial Advisors: Use Cases, Benefits and Best Practices
Explore AI use cases, benefits and best practices for financial advisors, including workflows, client conversations, governance and human oversight.
Author: Jules Lewin
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Business Operations, Business Planning, Growth, Market Insights, Market Volatility, Practice Management6 Tips to Create a Business Continuity Plan for Trying Economic Times
Individuals can’t control economic and market conditions. However, business leaders can certainly take steps to mitigate the negative impact of market volatility and improve profitability by being prepared. Financial advisors have an important role to play in keeping their clients informed, providing timely insights, delivering prompt service, and…
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How Centers of Influence Can Influence Your Bottom Line
You’ve improved your overall practice management, your client service is top-notch, and you’re seeing unsolicited referrals become new clients. Maybe you understand why the financial services industry has long recognized the power of referrals in attracting new business. The numbers are clear on how referrals can help boost…
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Community-Based Marketing: Jump Start Your Marketing in 2023
Where does your business fit in? Building business recognition as a successful brand means understanding your customer base and the things that matter to them. Community-based marketing meshes your brand’s values with something impacting your customer base.
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How to Deliver a Value Proposition That Drives Business Growth
“So, what do you do for a living?” This might be a question you ask as an icebreaker to get to know others.
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Business Operations, Client Experience, Client Relationships, Clients, FinTech, Investment Management, Regulatory ComplianceWealth Management FinTech Trends to Watch in 2023
Are you taking advantage of today’s technology to support your clients, empower your team, and grow your business? Stay up to date with the latest innovations and insights to ensure you’re ahead of the curve. These fintech trends are shaping the way asset management firms do business.
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Career Development, Client Experience, Client Relationships, FinTech, Market Insights, Market Volatility, Marketing, Practice Management, Regulatory Compliance, RIAA Look at RIA Market Trends for 2023
As we approach the end of the year, it’s a good time to look back and reflect on what’s shaping the RIA market. We’ve experienced some unusual hurdles in the past two years that have had a huge impact on financial advisory trends.
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Is Socially Responsible Investing Financially Responsible?
“Doing good while doing well,” is a fun bit of wordplay, and for the 85% of investors interested in sustainable investing, it’s an increasingly important underpinning of their financial planning efforts. But does “making an impact” negatively impact an investor’s bottom line?
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Client Acquisition, Client Experience, Client Relationships, Clients, Financial Planning, HNW/UHNW, Market Insights, Market Volatility, Retirement PlanningMarket Downturns: Generational Differences in Client Conversations
Investment management often requires that financial advisors address sensitive topics with their clients, but the stakes can be high in periods of market volatility. Client anxiety may escalate, sometimes leading to rash decisions.
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5 Key Elements to a Financial Advisor Business Plan
As a financial advisor, the idea of building a business plan can seem a low priority—merely an exercise for entrepreneurs trying to launch a startup. But as a business owner, you may know that you should take care of it, but you also know that it’s going to…
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Business Model, Business Planning, Client Experience, Client Relationships, Clients, Practice ManagementHow One Advisor Improved Client Experience and Increased Referrals
John Lococo, executive financial wealth manager at First Street Wealth Advisors in San Jose, CA, transitioned to a fee-based business over 15 years ago. Here’s his story.
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Business Operations, Client Acquisition, Client Experience, Client Relationships, Clients, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Next GenerationHNW Family Wealth Planning: 5 Best Practices for Your Clients
Sixty-eight trillion dollars. That’s the oft-quoted dollar amount of the Great Wealth Transfer—the transfer of wealth from the Silent Generation and Boomers to Generation X and Millennials in the coming decades. The Cerulli Report on U.S. High-Net-Worth and Ultra-High-Net-Worth says the figure is closer to $85 trillion by…
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Business Operations, Client Acquisition, Clients, Investment Management, Market Insights, Marketing, Practice Management, Regulatory ComplianceSEC Marketing Rule: A Simple Guide to Compliance
As an investment advisor, you have until the November 4, 2022 compliance date to adopt the necessary changes in how you promote your services. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to the SEC marketing rule 206 (4)-1 that affect investment advisor advertising, marketing activities, and…
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How to Prepare Your Firm for a Market Downturn or Recession
The last bull market, which ended in 2020, lasted 3,999 days. That means if you have been a financial advisor for less than a decade, you are now experiencing the first protracted market downturn of your professional career—and it’s stressful. Like parenthood, no matter how much you’ve studied…
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Fee-Based and Commission-Based Financial Advisor Compensation Models
Financial advisory practices have changed over the years and are increasingly shifting away from commission-based models toward fee-based models. To understand this trend and the forces that are influencing it, we examine the pros and cons of different compensation models.
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Client Experience, Client Relationships, Clients, Market Insights, Market Volatility, Next Generation7 Tips to Prepare Your Clients for a Market Downturn
“May you live in interesting times” is usually taken as a good-natured sentiment. That is until things start to get interesting in a bad way. Economic volatility and market downturns certainly catch the attention of advisors and investors alike, for all the wrong reasons. Adding to the uncertainty?…