Download or read book Rattiner s Financial Planner s Bible written by Jeffrey H. Rattiner and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2002-08-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jeff Rattiner has found another way to help producers. This book is a must-have for financial advisors, especially those that aspire to be Million Dollar Producers." -Thomas B. Gau, CPA, CFP President and CEO of Million Dollar Producer "Jeff Rattiner has done it again! His book displays all the essential tools and techniques necessary for advanced planners to succeed in this business. Rattiner's easy-to-read style provides the best in marketing and practice management ideas. This book will help you if you have hit a dead end in your practice. Rattiner tells it like it is by providing a no-nonsense approach to truly taking your practice to the next level. A must-read for the serious financial advisor." -Jim Cannon, President, SunAmerica Securities, Sentra Securities Corporation, and Spelman & Co., Inc. Financial planners provide a variety of services to an array of clients but lack a uniform system for creating a profitable business. Rattiner's Financial Planner's Bible: The Advisor's Advisor collects best practices from the nation's leading financial planners, presenting a prototype turnkey model for achieving financial success for both the client and the practice. Financial planning expert Jeffrey Rattiner emphasizes an ethical, practical approach to financial advising, placing paramount importance on "doing what's best for the client." Drawing on extensive interviews and his own experience, Rattiner delivers can't-miss tips on marketing a financial planning practice, developing an infrastructure, crafting strategic alliances, assessing a business's profitability, and creating the model twenty-first-century practice. This authoritative guide also covers: * Forming a planning advisory board * Establishing a realistic chain of command * Delegating responsibility * Making technology work for you * Charging clients appropriately Running a financial planning business need not be an exercise in trial and error. Rattiner's Financial Planner's Bible delivers a compelling model for advising success.

Download or read book The Smart Financial Advisor written by Bill Martin CFA and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What Your Financial Advisor Isn t Telling You written by Liz Davidson and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protect your money with this “accessible and practical” guide to hiring and working with financial advisors (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Hiring a trained expert to safeguard and grow your wealth seems like a foolproof decision, but it can go awry for many people. You should never blindly trust that your advisor has your best interests at heart—and while there are many benefits to working with a financial pro, there are some things you should know first. Drawing on her insider’s knowledge of how the financial advice profession really works, Liz Davidson shows how to judge whether an advisor is going to help or harm your savings. This no-nonsense guide covers questions such as: How should you decide if you really need an advisor? What financial moves can you make without their help? What important questions should you ask before trusting them with your money? What are the red flags you should run from? What does all their jargon really mean? Learn how to take control of your financial well-being—either with a financial advisor or without one. “This book is mandatory reading for anyone who wants a better understanding of how to manage their money.” —Mary Beth Franklin, InvestmentNews “Valuable tools for managing one’s personal finances for maximum results.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Download or read book A Good Financial Advisor Will Tell You written by Robert J. Luna and published by Trinadigm. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Have you ever wondered why investments always seem to go down after you buy them? - Are you overwhelmed by the number and complexity of investment choices? - Do you have a plan to create lifetime income from your investments, while preserving your principal? - Are you unsure how to find a good financial advisor and what to expect from one? In A Good Financial Advisor Will Tell You, authors Jeremy Kisner, CFP and Robert Luna, CIMA answer these common concerns and reveal what people really need to know to make better financial and investment decisions. Rather than write another boring book that explains stocks and mutual funds, the authors explore behavioral finance-the reasons why people make investing mistakes-and they teach readers how to avoid doing the same. Countless people amass small fortunes during their lifetimes only to squander them through inadequate planning and poor investments. We are all familiar with the celebrities who have lost it all. What is not reported in the press is how many middle class millionaires also lose it all. And an even larger number of people do not lose it all but could have left a legacy for generations if they had made better financial decisions. Most investors do not fare well precisely because they are human. Human beings are hard-wired to make decisions with their hearts or intuitions and then justify those decisions with logic. Greed and fear rule the day, but a better way exists that will allow investors to avoid mistakes and enjoy greater wealth and retirement income. After reading this book you will be a more educated investor and a better consumer of financial services.

Download or read book How to Value Buy or Sell a Financial Advisory Practice written by Mark C. Tibergien and published by John Wiley and Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial planning is a young industry. The International Association of Financial Planning—one of the predecessors to the Financial Planning Association—was formed less than forty years ago. But as the profession's first tier of advisers reaches maturity, the decisions that may be part of transition planning for their firms loom large. A sale? A partner buyout? A merger? No matter what the choice, its viability hinges on one critical issue—the value of the firm. Unfortunately, many advisers--whether veteran or novice—simply don't know the worth of their practice or how to influence it. That's why How to Value, Buy, or Sell a Financial-Advisory Practice is such an important book. It takes advisers carefully through the logic and the legwork of coming to a true assessment of one of their most important personal assets—their business. Renowned for their years of experience helping advisers tackle the daunting challenges related to the valuation, sale, and purchase of advisory firms, Mark C. Tibergien and Owen Dahl offer guidance that's essential and solutions that work.

Download or read book The White Coat Investor written by James M. Dahle and published by White Coat Investor LLC the. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a practicing emergency physician, The White Coat Investor is a high-yield manual that specifically deals with the financial issues facing medical students, residents, physicians, dentists, and similar high-income professionals. Doctors are highly-educated and extensively trained at making difficult diagnoses and performing life saving procedures. However, they receive little to no training in business, personal finance, investing, insurance, taxes, estate planning, and asset protection. This book fills in the gaps and will teach you to use your high income to escape from your student loans, provide for your family, build wealth, and stop getting ripped off by unscrupulous financial professionals. Straight talk and clear explanations allow the book to be easily digested by a novice to the subject matter yet the book also contains advanced concepts specific to physicians you won't find in other financial books. This book will teach you how to: Graduate from medical school with as little debt as possible Escape from student loans within two to five years of residency graduation Purchase the right types and amounts of insurance Decide when to buy a house and how much to spend on it Learn to invest in a sensible, low-cost and effective manner with or without the assistance of an advisor Avoid investments which are designed to be sold, not bought Select advisors who give great service and advice at a fair price Become a millionaire within five to ten years of residency graduation Use a "Backdoor Roth IRA" and "Stealth IRA" to boost your retirement funds and decrease your taxes Protect your hard-won assets from professional and personal lawsuits Avoid estate taxes, avoid probate, and ensure your children and your money go where you want when you die Minimize your tax burden, keeping more of your hard-earned money Decide between an employee job and an independent contractor job Choose between sole proprietorship, Limited Liability Company, S Corporation, and C Corporation Take a look at the first pages of the book by clicking on the Look Inside feature Praise For The White Coat Investor "Much of my financial planning practice is helping doctors to correct mistakes that reading this book would have avoided in the first place." - Allan S. Roth, MBA, CPA, CFP(R), Author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street "Jim Dahle has done a lot of thinking about the peculiar financial problems facing physicians, and you, lucky reader, are about to reap the bounty of both his experience and his research." - William J. Bernstein, MD, Author of The Investor's Manifesto and seven other investing books "This book should be in every career counselor's office and delivered with every medical degree." - Rick Van Ness, Author of Common Sense Investing "The White Coat Investor provides an expert consult for your finances. I now feel confident I can be a millionaire at 40 without feeling like a jerk." - Joe Jones, DO "Jim Dahle has done for physician financial illiteracy what penicillin did for neurosyphilis." - Dennis Bethel, MD "An excellent practical personal finance guide for physicians in training and in practice from a non biased source we can actually trust." - Greg E Wilde, M.D Scroll up, click the buy button, and get started today!

Download or read book The Ultimate Financial Advisor written by Bryan Sweet and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you dreamt of becoming the Ultimate Financial Advisor but don't know where to start? This book by Bryan Sweet, Brittany Anderson & Draye Redfern reveals the 12 pillars that are necessary to set you up for success and help you grow your financial advisory business exponentially. Not only will you uncover the strategies, marketing, systems needed to be successful, but you will also learn how to build your dream team along with the step-by-step path to actually implement all of your best ideas into your practice to reach your ultimate goals as a financial advisor.

Download or read book The Million dollar Financial Advisor written by David J. Mullen (Jr.) and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best financial advisors are well equipped to succeed regardless of market conditions. Based on interviews with fifteen top advisors, each doing several million dollars worth of business every year, The Million-Dollar Financial Advisor distills their universal success principles into thirteen distinct lessons. Each is explained step-by step for immediate application by veteran and new financial professionals alike. The lessons cover: * Building and focusing on client relationships * Having a top advisor mindset * Developing a long-term approach * Specialization * Marketing * And much more The book also features two complete case studies. First there is the "best of the best" advisor whose incredible success showcases the power of all the book's principles working together in concert. The second is an account of a remarkable and inspiring career turn around and demonstrates that it's never too late to reinvent oneself. Brimming with practical advice from the author and expert insights from his interview subjects, The Million-Dollar Financial Advisor is a priceless success tool for any and all financial advisors.

Download or read book Storyselling for Financial Advisors written by Scott West and published by Kaplan Trade. This book was released on 2000-01-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn what makes a client trust you to be their financial advisor. Put the power of story telling into selling financial products. The authors explain the process of making these intuitive connections, then translate their findings into understandable and practical strategies that any financial professional can use. They present actual stories, including many by Warren Buffet, one of the greatest "storysellers" of all time. These actual stories can help financial pros tap into the "gut reaction" of different types of clients. the book also includes special topics on communicating to women, the 50+ market, and the affluent.

Download or read book The Financial Advisor M A Guidebook written by Greg Friedman and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With M&As in the RIA space increasing, many firms are rapidly changing hands with little to no expert guidance on how to successfully execute a merger or acquisition. In 2017, a record number of M&A deals closed in the advisor space – 168 transactions, or a 22% growth over 2016. Aside from a fifth straight year of record highs in M&A activity, the size of the acquired firms has also increased, with average acquisitions involving wealth managers exceeding $1.01 billion in assets under management. For many advisors, it only takes a handful of missteps during a merger or acquisition to jeopardize their business, but with so much unknown, advisors need a guidebook for success. A significant and often overlooked component to a successful RIA merger or acquisition is the thoughtful integration of technology. This comprehensive guide walks you through the steps of strategy, assessment, implementation, adoption and growth, all while considering how to best inspire and galvanize a firm’s most valuable asset – its people. Combining the real-life experiences of a life-long financial advisor with the expertise of a 15-year operations director and founder of a large RIA ops network, this book takes real M&A experiences of the financial services industry and offers best practices, tools and resources to help advisors make smart decisions about technology integration that elevates the firm’s goals and solidifies its future success.

Download or read book Investor Decision Making and the Role of the Financial Advisor written by Caterina Cruciani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at financial advisory from a behavioural perspective, and focuses on how the nature of the relationship between advisors and clients may affect the ability of the advisor to perform its functions. Broken into three key parts, the book looks at the client, the advisor, and the relationship between the two. Chapters review relevant theories of decision-making under risk to understand the nature of clients’ decisions. The literature on advisors’ functions and the normative landscape regulating financial advisory are also addressed. Finally, this book reviews how behavioural finance has traditionally addressed portfolio selection and explains how trust can be seen as a viable avenue to maximize advisors’ effectiveness and pursue clients’ needs. This book will be of interest to both behavioural finance scholars and practitioners interested in understanding what the future of financial advisory may have in stock.

Download or read book Financial Advisor s Guide to Excellence written by Daniel Collison and published by Thomson Carswell. This book was released on 2013 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book DIY Financial Advisor written by Wesley R. Gray and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIY Financial Advisor: A Simple Solution to Build and Protect Your Wealth DIY Financial Advisor is a synopsis of our research findings developed while serving as a consultant and asset manager for family offices. By way of background, a family office is a company, or group of people, who manage the wealth a family has gained over generations. The term 'family office' has an element of cachet, and even mystique, because it is usually associated with the mega-wealthy. However, practically speaking, virtually any family that manages its investments—independent of the size of the investment pool—could be considered a family office. The difference is mainly semantic. DIY Financial Advisor outlines a step-by-step process through which investors can take control of their hard-earned wealth and manage their own family office. Our research indicates that what matters in investing are minimizing psychology traps and managing fees and taxes. These simple concepts apply to all families, not just the ultra-wealthy. But can—or should—we be managing our own wealth? Our natural inclination is to succumb to the challenge of portfolio management and let an 'expert' deal with the problem. For a variety of reasons we discuss in this book, we should resist the gut reaction to hire experts. We suggest that investors maintain direct control, or at least a thorough understanding, of how their hard-earned wealth is managed. Our book is meant to be an educational journey that slowly builds confidence in one's own ability to manage a portfolio. We end our book with a potential solution that could be applicable to a wide-variety of investors, from the ultra-high net worth to middle class individuals, all of whom are focused on similar goals of preserving and growing their capital over time. DIY Financial Advisor is a unique resource. This book is the only comprehensive guide to implementing simple quantitative models that can beat the experts. And it comes at the perfect time, as the investment industry is undergoing a significant shift due in part to the use of automated investment strategies that do not require a financial advisor's involvement. DIY Financial Advisor is an essential text that guides you in making your money work for you—not for someone else!

Download or read book 5 Steps for Selecting the Best Financial Advisor written by Jack Waymire and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your financial future requires more than just good luck--it takes the specialized expertise of a competent, ethical advisor who can help you achieve your financial goals. Your first step on this road to success is selecting the right financial advisor. This may sound like an easy task, but it is fraught with risk. That's because there are great advisors you should select and bad advisors you should avoid. You have to know the difference to make the right selection. After decades in the financial service industry, Jack Waymire and Jonathan Dash have seen countless investors make the wrong advisor choices that were based on slick sales pitches instead of advisor characteristics that really matter. They wrote this book to level the playing field between Wall Street and Main Street. Their book shows you how the internet is a game changer. It gives you access to vast amounts of public data. You just have to know where to look, what to look for, and the relative importance of the information that you find. This is your foundation for selecting the right advisor. 5 Steps for Selecting the Best Financial Advisor helps you use the internet to find, research, contact, interview, and select the financial advisor with the best qualifications. You don't have to be a due-diligence expert. All you need is the patience and discipline to follow the steps in this book.

Download or read book The 10X Financial Advisor written by Scott Winters and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Financial Advisors fail to run their practice like a business and consequently never live up to their full potential. Even worse they find themselves trapped by the demands of their clients and unable to lift the proverbial ceiling on their income. This book will take you on a journey through the proprietary Quantum Leap Success Model built to help financial advisors achieve massive and sustainable growth. So, you want to be a million-dollar producer or dare I say it, a multimillion-dollar producer. How do you get there? The simple answer is that you need a recipe. Many financial advisors toil in mediocrity for years haphazardly trying different ways to jump-start their business. They forge their path forward by feeling, or even worse by trial and error. They waste time, effort, and money, chasing every new idea, thinking that this time will be different. This time they will become the success that they always dreamed that they could be. Unfortunately, time and time again, they find themselves stuck in the cohort of the average. The good news is that you do not have to be average anymore. There is a model to build just about everything. If you want to build a house, you would be out of your mind to proceed without a blueprint. If you want to build a business, you can build a plan emulating the world's most successful companies. There is absolutely no difference in our business. If you want to be a financial advisor superstar, The 10X Financial Advisor provides you with a blueprint for success.In almost every profession, there is a cohort of people that make up the best of the best, la creme de la creme. The rest of the surrounding people are left looking in with wonder. How did they achieve such fantastic success? How did they get to such an extraordinary level of talent? You could very well be talking about the computer scientist that can code ten times faster and more proficient than their peers or the salesperson that earns 10x more than the others. Almost everywhere you look, there are people who have broken out of the mold of mediocrity and go on to do something truly great within their respective spheres. How about your company? At most financial firms, there is one, or perhaps a few individuals who are ten times more successful than all the other advisors. What are they doing differently than you? Has it ever felt like you work just as hard, but do not even come close to the same output? The 10X Financial Advisor will provide you with a clear, simple to follow, formulaic approach to massively growing and scaling your financial services business. By the time you finish this book you will possess the blueprint that will allow you to transform your practice and turn it into a thriving and sustainable business. You can be the one in your company that everyone else is envious of and looks up to. You will possess the knowledge to accomplish the very pinnacle of success within financial services. You can become a card-carrying member of the 10X club.

Download or read book The 5 Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them written by Peter Mallouk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identify mistakes standing in the way of investment success With so much at stake in investing and wealth management, investors cannot afford to keep repeating actions that could have serious negative consequences for their financial goals. The Five Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them focuses on what investors do wrong so often so they can set themselves on the right path to success. In this comprehensive reference, readers learn to navigate the ever-changing variables and market dilemmas that often make investing a risky and daunting endeavor. Well-known and respected author Peter Mallouk shares useful investment techniques, discusses the importance of disciplined investment management, and pinpoints common, avoidable mistakes made by professional and everyday investors alike. Designed to provide a workable, sensible framework for investors, The Five Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them encourages investors to refrain from certain negative actions, such as fighting the market, misunderstanding performance, and letting one's biases and emotions get in the way of investing success. Details the major mistakes made by professional and everyday investors Highlights the strategies and mindset necessary for navigating ever-changing variables and market dilemmas Includes useful investment techniques and discusses the importance of discipline in investment management A reliable resource for investors who want to make more informed choices, this book steers readers away from past investment errors and guides them in the right direction.

Download or read book Wealth Management written by Harold Evensky and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1997 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ``Harold's diligent and scholarly approach to investing theory makes Wealth Management a thoughtful book that should be on every advisor's reading list.''--Charles R. Schwab, Chairman & CEO, The Charles Schwab Corporation. Wealth Management outlines the current state-of-the-art in financial planning, and describes respected financial planning speaker and author Harold Evensky's effective, optimal asset allocation policy that is designed to account for each client's unique goals and constraints. It provides you with concise yet thorough information on current investment theories, along with detailed reference for further study.