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Category: Mass Affluent

Advisor2.0: Can You Teach the “EQ” Intangibles?

By Rick Swygman and David Greene | June 23, 2022

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,…

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Advisor Insight: The Power of EQ

By Rick Swygman and David Greene | March 21, 2022

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…

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Advisor 2.0: What Makes the BEST Advisor

By Rick Swygman | February 9, 2022

The Intangibles A few weeks ago the leader of a successful RIA we work with called me about our last blog, What Makes a GREAT Advisor.  He said he completely agreed with the claim we made that if the skills, disciplines and practices addressed in that blog are mastered, you’re sure to have a highly…

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Advisor 2.0: What Makes a GREAT Advisor?

By Rick Swygman | October 20, 2021

In July we posted a blog titled “Re-Imagining the Wealth Management Experience: Advisor2.0.”  In this blog we described the fact that the experience required to be competitive in today’s wealth management landscape has evolved, requiring more breadth, depth and skill of advisors.  Interestingly, this was one of the most popular blogs we have ever posted,…

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Re-Imagining the Wealth Management Experience: Advisor 2.0

By Rick Swygman | July 14, 2021

How will you differentiate and drive growth in the modern era of wealth management? I will start out here by stating the obvious – the wealth management industry is changing, and changing at break-neck speed. But what is not so obvious is that the majority of advisors we see out there continue to prospect, serve…

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Best Practices from Financial Services Industry Leaders: Strategies for Achieving Differentiation and Growth

By Rick Swygman | August 15, 2019

Greene Consulting recently hosted a forum with some of the best market level leaders we know in the wealth management industry to discuss some of the key opportunities and challenges facing financial services firms.  These leaders who come from a variety of firms from small to large, have a unique perspective with true, “street-level knowledge”…

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Changing the Conversation Part IV: Enhancing the Impact of your Client Discovery Conversation

By Rick Swygman | May 1, 2019

Whether you are an advisor, coach a team of advisors or lead a division, the purpose of this brief article is to encourage you to pause for a minute and honestly reflect on your approach and your firm’s approach to the Client Discovery Conversation and, more specifically, think about how you would answer the following…

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A Leadership Dialogue Worth Reading: Balancing the Need to Drive Revenue with Doing What is Right for Clients

By Rick Swygman | February 28, 2019

Given the breadth of contacts we have in our work in the financial services industry, we are afforded the opportunity to encounter some of the best bankers, advisors, market leaders and executive leaders in the industry. Recently, we thought it worthwhile to connect some of the best in these roles with each other, believing that…

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Changing the Conversation Part III: Transforming the Value and Impact of Client Relationship Review Meetings

By Rick Swygman | January 31, 2019

One of the things we do quite often in our quest to help our industry raise the bar on the value provided to its clients is participate in pre-call planning sessions. A majority of these sessions are focused on planning for an upcoming Relationship Review Meeting with a high-value client. All too often, we hear…

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Changing the Conversation Part II: Changing the Planning Paradigm – The Key to Overcoming the Advisor (AND Client) Adoption Challenge

By Dan Greene, David Greene and Rick Swygman | November 30, 2018

Planning software firms like eMoney and MoneyGuidePro are exponentially growing in terms of the number of firms and advisors utilizing their planning software (with currently well over 100,000 advisors in the U.S. equipped with eMoney or MoneyGuidePro, not to mention the numerous other planning platforms). Yet, the vast majority of firms incorporating these capabilities are…

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