When evaluating practice management areas, advisors tend to focus on each area as if it were a stand-alone component. Advisors also like to create their practice management list in order of importance or by the percentage of time they spend in each area...Read More »
Advisors understandably question what vendors mean when they advertise products as “Business Intelligence” tools. Search on-line for business intelligence and you get a process used by companies with a lot of buzzwords such as SQL, data analytics, and data mining for large volumes of data. Does the same process that large financial services organizations use apply to advisory firms? The answer is yes...Read More »
If asked how well you understand your business, you can probably boast how well you know and manage your clients. You can forever talk about how good you are at managing money and giving investment advice...Read More »
Congratulations! You just implemented a new ______________ (insert CRM, portfolio reporting, re-balancer, client portal, etc.) and you see an immediate improvement in the efficiency of your back-office. These sophisticated tools can store more client data, automate the consolidation of client assets, and streamline the reporting process to shorten the delivery time...Read More »
Advisors that view their back-office as an investment will structure the back-office to support their business plan. Advisors that view their back-office as a cost tend to invest in what they consider affordable – altering their business plan based on what the back-office can provide...Read More »