Financial advisory services can be a tricky venture to jump into. You have to be best prepared to cater to a wide variety of clients. Also, you need to be technically sound while understanding the market dynamics to provide profitable advice to your clients. New financial...
To master the art of marketing, one must go through a trial-and-error process as marketing skills don’t come naturally. It often becomes more challenging for financial advisors to work “in” their own business and investment than to working “on” other's business and investment. To achieve success...
It’s impressive how technology is changing the dynamics of the financial industry. Like every other business, financial advisors and agencies would want to perform better and earn more profits. Technology can help them achieve the desired goal. Not only can they earn better-paying clients, but they...
Rome wasn’t built in a day. You may have encountered this statement before or not. The point here is to understand the financial interpretation of the statement. You can’t make great investment decisions in a jiffy. What the statement means is that your investments need...
All the investment opportunities come with two constants- Risk and reward. A financial advisor’s task is to communicate both to their clients and come up with lucrative investment opportunities for them. As a financial advisor, you know that not all clients are the same. Even if...
If you are a financial advisor the ability to market yourself is central to the success of your business and as important as your professional competences, because it allows you to reach toward and win over clients. Even if you are offering excellent services, the...
The asset allocation of a portfolio is an important aspect as it determines its structure and the varied types of assets that are included in its composition. Before including an asset in his portfolio an investor has to think it through in order to determine...
The risk questionnaire is not an instrument that collects information about a client in order to automatically assign him a type of investment. It is a way to get to know the client and his goals, priorities and behavior in order to help him make...
Most Risk Appetite Questionnaires get a bad rap. For many advisers, they are simply a compliance tool to appease the regulator. They add some value, but if it weren’t mandated, they probably wouldn’t use them. This negative mindset is rightly deserved due to the abusive...
A discussion with Tony Leal, President and CTO of PIEtech/MoneyGuidePro on the future of technology in financial planning. MoneyGuidePro is recognised as the most popular financial planning software in the U.S. It's software is used by independent solo advisors all the way up to Schwab....
