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Planning and Advice
You’ve decided to moveto a partner-based model. What now? List the desired skills and areas of expertise you’re looking to bring into your practice. While this will ultimately serve as a checklist in your quest, it will also indicate if you should be seeking one partner or several.
By Michelle Patey |August 4, 2011
6 min read
Michael Berton, a Senior Financial Planner with Assante Financial Management in Vancouver, knew his client’s mental faculties were slipping when he started getting weekly phone calls.
By Leigh Doyle |August 4, 2011
12 min read
Running a successful advisory practice while still maintaining a rich home life is the holy grail for any advisor. Advisor’s Edge hosted leading Canadian CFAs who’ve been able to do just that and asked them their strategies for improving work-life balance.
By Dean DiSpalatro |August 4, 2011
Few accounts are so simple that they require no outside counsel. That’s why it’s important to actively work on building a trusted network of professionals you can rely upon. Pretending you’re an expert at everything by trying to do it all yourself is generally a terrible idea because in most cases it will make the […]
By Raf Brusilow |August 2, 2011
4 min read
Some people strive for change and others have change thrust upon them. And so it is in the financial planning business. The financial services industry has become so complex that certified financial planner Bradley Roulston, who runs Healthcare Financial Group, a successful niche market financial services business with offices in Toronto and Vancouver, says boldly, […]
By Brenda Craig |August 2, 2011
Every day, millions of Canadians seek service from health care practitioners. Stringent regulation and professional oversight of health professions help protect Canadians from receiving care from unethical or poorly qualified practitioners. Poor financial care is as detrimental to a person’s health and well-being as “bad” health care. Yet, individuals holding themselves out to the Canadian […]
By Coalition for Professional Standards for Financial Planners |August 2, 2011
Industry
Any doubts about the power of Internet marketing have been eliminated with the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa — dubbed the social media revolution due to its role in organizing the protests. However, before financial advisors leap into social media marketing campaigns, it is important to start with the basics. As […]
By Brian O’Hara |August 2, 2011
How advisors are paid, and by whom, has long been a matter for controversy
By Dean DiSpalatro |August 2, 2011
8 min read
Advisors in the proprietary and HNW segments often tell us they need more than just the research and marketing support their in-house analysts provide. They’re looking for approaches that will give them a leg up.
August 2, 2011
5 min read
Life
Would the law go so far as to impose an obligation on an advisor to seek out and advise a beneficiary of a right to pay a premium on a lapsed policy? I don’t know, but if I were an advisor encountering a potential lapse situation, I’d have Compliance on speed dial.
August 1, 2011
3 min read
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