“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. The art of coining terms like your firm name, proprietary planning process, etc., adding constraints to increase your creativity, the importance of iteration, and much, much more [Video]: Marketing Lessons With Jack Butcher (David Perell, Perell.com) Morningstar’s Director of Retirement Research David Blanchett on three sources of wealth advisors fail to consider in tandem when designing a portfolio’s risk/return profile [Article]: “Advisors who limit client wealth planning to their portfolio are missing a big part of doing their job correctly. Instead, they…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (December 12-13, 2020)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Cranbrook Wealth’s Casey Bear and Logan Ross on how to find your fit in the industry, being selective with offers, and the approach the two took to develop Ross into a lead advisor of 50 ultra-affluent clients by age 29 [Podcast]: “At first, I was extremely nervous. I think any 24-year-old would be. I just kept spiraling the snowball effect of working with one big family, then another, and another. Having Casey right there in front of me. He’d bring me…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (December 5-6, 2020)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Financial planning professor and blogger Mary Carlson talks about her winding journey through the industry, the key question she asked to open job opportunities early on, being willing to make changes to find your fit (while not burning bridges), and more: [Podcast]: “I knew pretty early on that I wanted to be both a career woman and a mother. That has always been really important and near and dear to my heart. I led kind of a winding path through my…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (November 28-29, 2020)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. ICYMI: Ritholtz Wealth Management advisor Blair duQuesnay shares her story about persevering through industry obstacles, aligning with a firm to optimize her strengths and financial planning philosophy, and evolving from her effective “chip on the shoulder” mentality to an even better approach: [Podcast with transcript]: “Being a top student in school always – the biggest shocker to me coming out of school was that your straight A’s don’t mean you’re going to be successful. That was like a real reality moment…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (November 14-15, 2020)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. XY Planning Network advisor Britton Gregory on taking small steps to validate financial planning as a career change, what he would do differently, and how he utilizes key performance indicators [podcast]: “So that was a real defining moment that told me, hey, this is a good next step. So I took I took steps, but they were small steps. I didn’t immediately say, oh, I’m going to quit my job. I said, I’m going to start my RIA, I’m going to…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (October 31 – November 1, 2020)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. More precise and optimized planning priorities, error minimization, and surprising benefits of incorporating planning flowcharts and checklists into your practice (podcast link below video): #261 – Mike Lecours, fpPathfinder – We’re Seeing More Advisors Start To Build This Into A Core Part Of Their Business (Meb Faber, The Meb Faber Show) Optimize your subject lines to increase open rates (article link below video): “Eight out of 10 people will read the subject line of an email, while only two of them will go…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (September 5-7, 2020)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. A simple system for building and maintaining your important relationships: “What I love about Weisberg’s story is that it shatters so many myths about the best networkers, also known as superconnectors. You don’t need to be rich, charming, extroverted, or part of the old boys’ network. You can be kind, generous, helpful, and sincere without engaging in the transactional tit-for-tat thinking. And what emerges is both quite simple and spectacularly powerful. A tribe of like-minded and kind-hearted people each trying to impact…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (August 8-9, 2020)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. A new take on an old metric: “What is the most important number in personal finance? I used to think it was net worth, or possibly liquid net worth, but I have since come to the conclusion that these measures have some serious limitations. Net worth, for example, isn’t the best indicator of financial acumen because it doesn’t come with any context. It doesn’t tell you how someone got their net worth. … Given these limitations, is there a way we can adjust the LWR into…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (April 11-12, 2020)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of podcasts, articles, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. This edition of “Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” opens with three articles looking at what it’s like to weather the impact of the coronavirus from the financial advisor’s perspective. Joey Loss with Life Planning Partners displays some vulnerability and a refreshing perspective in describing some of the doubts a young advisor can encounter while encouraging clients to “stay the course.” Bryan Hasling of JW Harrison follows with an insightful blog post detailing the lessons he has learned about managing clients…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (January 31, 2020)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of podcasts, articles, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. *** With the start of a new year (and decade!), it’s a good time to rebrand the “Financial Planning Articles” series. With many of my links featuring podcast episodes and videos, “Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” better describes the content that I share in this series. This edition appropriately kicks off with two podcast episodes geared towards transitioning into the industry. From FPA Activate, the first is an interview between Hannah Moore and XY Planning Network’s Financial Planning and Process…
