Careers

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  Advisors Mulling a Move Should Check the Elephant in the Room

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 10, 2013

  Conversations about career transitions tend to focus on the advantages of making a move while ignoring the risks of moving, Cetera says.

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  Advisors More Likely to Switch Firms With Family’s Approval

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 9, 2013

  Memo to recruiters: A focus on the financial advantages of switching firms may ultimately be less effective than demonstrating how a move might improve the advisor’s work-life balance.

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  Warning: Micromanagement Doesn’t Build Successful Firms

  By Angie Herbers  |  May 8, 2013

  You hired them, you trained them and you coach them. Let employees do their job.

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  New Hire Roundup: Marcus Goes to Genworth

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 8, 2013

  This week in new hires, Joel Marcus joined Genworth Wealth Management and Direxion brought in Patrick Rudnick as CFO.

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  Middle-Age White Guys Need Not Apply: AIG’s Advisor Group Diversifies Recruitment

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 7, 2013

  The traditional image of the wirehouse-trained advisor serving strictly HNW white males is giving way as women challenge assumptions about who the average investor is.

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  Advisor Group Unveils Initiative to Help Women Advisors Grow Their Practice

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  May 6, 2013

  The AIG-owned Advisor Group is putting its power behind an initiative to help women advisors grow their business in an admittedly "male-dominated industry."

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  CFP Board’s CE Plan Rattles FPA Retreat Attendees

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 5, 2013

  The CFP Board, which is currently tasked with setting the standards and regulating CFP CE providers, would become a provider itself if the plan were approved.

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  Kitces and Winterberg Describe the Future of Financial Planning

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 5, 2013

  At FPA Retreat, Michael Kitces and Bill Winterberg suggested that in the very near future—now?—planners won't be able to act like the Wizard of Oz. Better interaction and engagement with clients will mean better adoption.

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  Are Your ‘Time Saving Techniques’ Just Pushing Work Back to Clients?

  By Michael E. Kitces  |  May 4, 2013

  There is greater pressure than ever for financial planners to maintain high productivity levels, but at what cost?

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  Sallie Krawcheck Decries Industry ‘Becoming Republican Party’

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 4, 2013

  “It is my intention to be controversial and make us uncomfortable here today,” Sallie Krawcheck said. She didn’t disappoint.