Not Your Father’s CRM
Most financial advisors share similar goals and objectives. Most of these goals center around two purposes: attracting new clients and ensuring that existing clients are happy. More times than [...]
Down! Set! Advise!
I am not, nor have I ever been a professional athlete. I am not sure how or what I would have done had I been handed a multi-million dollar bonus check for making a decision to leave college [...]
The Changing Face of Robo-Advisors
“You must always be able to predict what’s next and then have the flexibility to evolve.” Mark Benioff, Founder & CEO, Salesforce.com The success of many firms that are now household names [...]
Stewardship vs. Management: How are you handling your client’s assets?
More times than not, I found that firms highlighted their investment skills and focused on their winning track record to try and gain my business; I could be another valued statistic. The [...]
Employee Spotlight: Jeanne Benson
Jeanne Benson, Service Bureau 1. Tell us a little bit about the First Rate side of Jeanne Benson. Really my history with First Rate started in March of 1983, long before First Rate was founded, [...]
Uniform Fiduciary Standard Ignites Fierce Debate: Two Camps and Countless Fundamental Questions – Part 1
Raging in the financial services industry today is a fiery debate over whether investment advisers and broker-dealers (BD’s) should be held to a uniform fiduciary standard and what that standard [...]
The Hidden Impact of Taxes on Investment Returns
If you are not a weekly reader of Jason Zweig’s “The Intelligent Investor” column in the Wall Street Journal, you need to be. In last week’s article, When Funds Insult Their Investors, Jason [...]
Who is To Blame for Investment Manager Failures?
Ron Surz( President & CEO, PPCA Inc. )Ron Surz is President and CEO of PPCA Inc and its Target Date Solutions subsidiary. Both are in San Clemente, CA. Ron is a performance evaluation veteran who [...]
