25 YEARS The wealth management business has seen stunning growth over the past 25 years. In fact, according to research published in the Financial Times, the average annual financial market growth of over the 10-year period from 2012-2021 pushed global private client wealth to an estimated level of $360 trillion.1 But there are significant headwinds. First,…

Given the extremely high level of responses we received in our last article – This is Your Wake-Up Call – Are You Prepared to Deliver Value in an AI World? – we thought it worthwhile to stay on this topic and provide some additional thoughts and perspectives, expanding a bit on our point-of-view pertaining to the…

“The achieve our growth objectives, the first thing we need to get right is our Discovery Process.” – Bank Wealth Management Executive Few would argue with this executive’s claim. Discovery is unquestionably one of the most important aspects of developing engagement with prospects and is equally as important in maintaining a deep understanding of your…

Intentionality [ in-ten-shuh-nal-i-tee] An attitude of purposefulness, with a commitment to deliberate action. In our work over the years with thousands of advisors we’ve captured many of the skills and practices that are consistent with the best, most productive advisors out there – those who consistently achieve their productivity targets and do so by making…

Our clients frequently ask us to actively participate in pre-call planning sessions as advisor teams plan for prospect meetings. From these engagements, we’ve identified five fundamental mistakes that we see occurring time and again. The reality is these mistakes also undermine the results of many experienced advisors as certain habits unwittingly developed over time become…

There are some very compelling statistics that confirm the critical importance of equipping new, “next generation” advisors to fill the talent gap the wealth management industry will be facing over the coming years. For example, look at some of the following statistics: 55 The average age of financial advisors 20% Number of financial advisors who…

Schedule a Call Pre-call planning, once perfected, is one of – if not THE – most powerful practices we know of to accelerate revenue growth while enhancing your teams’ ability to consistently deliver truly differentiated value in their prospect and client calls Yet, the reality is that many do not even do pre-calls prior to…

Schedule a Call Generate high-quality referrals from Commercial Bankers using this information. One of the top priorities we consistently hear from wealth advisors is to generate more leads from Commercial Banking.  Makes total sense, as commercial clients (business owners) provide the greatest opportunity for growth on the wealth side of the business, as these clients…

Schedule a Call In our last few blogs we’ve been highly focused on the topic of EQ.  The reason for that is because we are clearly recognizing that in today’s world of wealth management, EQ skills are proving to be the key differentiator that separates the best advisors from the rest. In our February blog,…

Does EQ really matter? And what IS EQ? Is it simply about having good “people skills”? Or is it more than that? And is it worth working on and perfecting these skills? Our firm recently concluded our first Forum, collaborating with 16 advisors from various firms across the industry to help them further develop and…