Wealth Think

An article on the topic Tuesday generated a lot of buzz on Twitter and resulted in an interesting discussion about best practices for financial advisors when communicating with wealthier clients.

The Marketing Maven offers marketing insights from the Ladenburg Institute of Women and Finance Symposium

If referrals play a key role in your marketing plans for the year, here are some key elements that must be addressed.

Jenni Rivera was a singer-songwriter, actress and Telemundo TV star who died tragically and now her estate will be as rocky as her life.

Ed Slott, Your IRA Expert, examines your IRA and 401(k) issues, including how does the IRS plan to provide relifer from strict Roth conversion deadlines for those impacted by Hurricane Sandy.

Every once in a while, advisors are presented with special opportunities to build trust and win client loyalty. It’s when clients are feeling excessive fear, uncertainty, or doubt, that it is your responsibility to reassure them, educate them, and guide them. With so many factors impacting your clients right now, what do they need from you?

As the wealth management industry continues to evolve, financial advisors have a broader range of choices than ever before in determining the structure and growth trajectory of their own practices. Competition for successful advisors with strong books of business among the wirehouses remains fierce, while opportunities for ownership in that world remain elusive.

A few years ago, a trio of analysts created a stir when they published two memos suggesting that the American economy had become a “plutonomy” – one that is highly and disproportionately controlled by the extremely wealthy. Keith Webber says that, when looking ahead to the millions of baby boomers who will be retiring in the next 15 years, it’s not hard to envision the idea of retirement turning into a “plutirement,” with two very different retirement realities facing your clients.

When people think of jobs on Wall Street, they often imagine a bunch of accountants, analysts, stockbrokers, mathematicians and other brainy types. But not everyone in the financial sector follows the same path.

We got lucky in 2012. The financial markets held up. The economy, while slow, didn’t tank. Inflation remained benign. And the world held together. Blogger Steve Sanduski asks, will we say the same about 2013 a year from now?