AdvisorBenchmarking.com
Phone: (301) 296-5385
Website: www.advisorbenchmarking.com
AdvisorBenchmarking is designed for Registered Investment Advisors
(RIAs) to help them enhance and grow their businesses. By participating
in a confidential online survey, advisors receive customized free
analysis of their practices.
The confidential online survey takes about 20-30 minutes to complete,
covering all important aspects of the advisors business: Marketing,
Client Relations, Profitability, Investment Product Use, Technology
Use and Business Policies.
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Advisor Impact
1001 Avenue of the Americas, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (866) 686-0660
Email: info@advisorimpact.com
Website: www.advisorimpact.com
Advisor Impact, Inc. works with financial services firms, and their
advisors, to improve productivity and profitability. To that end,
the firm provides research, training and tools to help advisors build
a foundation of profitable and loyal clients. With offices in New
York and Toronto, Advisor Impact works with financial advisors, broker/dealers
and mutual fund companies across North America. The company was incorporated
in 1998.
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The Covenant Group
335 Bay Street, Suite 701
Toronto, Ontario M5H 2R3 Canada
Phone: (877) 903-3878
Email: info@covenantgroup.com
Website: www.covenantgroup.com
Welcome to The Covenant Group, creator of The 8 Best Practices of
High-Performing Advisors. We specialize in helping organizations
grow market share and increase productivity by improving the practice
development capability of their advisors and agents. Our approach
is to develop long-term Learning Relationships with our clients. In
the past five years, we have created programs and entered into Learning
Relationships with many of the world's largest insurance companies,
banks, mutual fund companies and securities dealers.
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Focus Point Solutions
3395 Southwest Garden View Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97225
Phone: (866) 201-3034
Email: info@focuspointsolutions.com
Website: www.focuspointsolutions.com
Utilizing a web-based virtual office concept, we deliver a fully outsourced
and turnkey business solution for fee-based advisors. This complete
solution provides everything from an integrated client database and
portfolio management system, to fully aligned systems for procedural
and administrative support. The program is enhanced by our unique
philosophies and strategic business guidance, and bolstered by financial
planning case writing support, marketing support, an option to use
our firm's branding as your own, and much more.
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FP Transitions
10260 SW Greenburg Road Suite 1170
Portland, OR 97223
Phone: (800) 934-3303
Website: www.fptransitions.com
FP Transitions is the nation’s leading provider of equity management, valuation, and succession planning services for the financial services industry, and operates the largest open market for buying and selling financial service practices in the U.S. Working in cooperation with broker-dealers, custodians, clearing firms, and insurance companies, FP Transitions provides its services to independent and captive financial advisors, registered reps, and insurance agents of all sizes.
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Freedomarketing
1291 Duncan Avenue
Oshawa, ON L1K 2Y2
Phone: (888) 677-8946
Email: kirk@freedomarketing.com
Website: www.freedomarketing.com
Freedomarketing helps financial advisors
develop, design, implement and sustain their marketing strategies.
We provide advisors with a clear marketing focus and message. We then
work with advisors to design, implement and manage all of their marketing
initiatives. Yes, we actually help you implement and manage your marketing.
We call this our 'Chauffeur Driven' marketing solution. Our services
include brand development, web design, brochure and post card design,
content writing. marketing consulting, and much more.
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HorsesMouth
39 Broadway, 23rd Floor
New York, NY, 10006
Phone: (212) 343-8760
Email: info@horsesmouth.com
Website: www.horsesmouth.com
Horsesmouth improves the performance of financial advisors in a continuous
process that provides them with access to innovative resources and
key people that can help them succeed. The Horsesmouth Network provides
access to innovative resources and key people that can help you and
your firm succeed. Horsesmouth brings you new ideas every day for
business development, practice management, financial planning, client
management, managed money, and investing. In addition, Horsesmouth
includes powerful tools for corporate executives, branch managers,
training departments, and product groups who focus on increasing performance
within the firm. The firm can reinforce important messages in internal
Web sites, newsletters, learning modules, and promotional material
by linking to fresh, relevant content in Horsesmouth.
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IndependentRepBestPractises
Tiburon Strategic Advisors
1735 Tiburon Blvd.
Tiburon, CA 94920
Phone: (415) 789-2540
Email: help@tiburonadvisors.com
Website: www.independentrepbestpractices.com
IndependentRepBestPractices provides independent representatives a
forum to compare their business practices versus other independent
representatives, and learn best practices in areas such as product
use, technology use, marketing strategies, and business economics.
IndependentRepBestPractices is also FREE to use! There are 35 questions
in the survey and it will take approximately forty-five minutes to
complete. Once you have completed the survey, you will be able to
print a free, comprehensive 225 page research report! All of the user
data is saved throughout your session, so you are welcome to return
at any time. User information is protected by our privacy policy.
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Inside Information
Phone: (913) 491-8383
Email: bobveres@yahoo.com
Website: www.bobveres.com
Inside Information gives you access to the best thinking in a community
made up of some the best and most thoughtful advisors on the planet.
Inside Information is actually three services in one: 1) a weekly
e-mail with the Cliff Notes version of the most important articles
that have been published in 4 trade magazines and 6 consumer magazines
that week; 2) the monthly Inside Information newsletter, which offers
the best thinking at 10 industry conferences a year, plus articles
on new trends in practice management, investing and client services.
And 3) a weekly e-mail that interacts with you and other leading planners,
posing questions and then reporting on the best and most thoughtful
answers, allowing the community to think through its challenges in
real time.
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Money Quotient
261 Moe Street
Poulsbo, WA 98370
Phone: (360) 697-4561
Email: amy@moneyquotient.com
Website: www.moneyquotient.com
Money Quotient (M.Q.) develops Financial Life Planning®
tools and training for professionals who want to make a difference
in the lives of their clients. As a non-profit organization focused
on education and research, our purpose is to provide a life-centered
approach that will engage, enlighten, and empower the clients you
serve. To this end, we have developed a process for building solid
client relationships, conducting effective one-on-one meetings, and
delivering value-added services. In addition, our practical, life-centered
materials will help you get to the heart of your client's values and
priorities, and create a framework to align a financial plan with
their life goals.
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Nick Murray
P.O. Box 1554
Mattituck, NY 11952
Phone: (631) 298-1840
Email: nmurrayco@aol.com
Website: www.nickmurray.com
Nick Murray began his career as a financial advisor in 1967. In 1975,
he was a founding director of the New York City chapter of the organization
now known as the Financial Planning Association. He is the author
of seven books for financial services professionals, including the
current best seller, The New Financial Advisor. For clients, Nick
also wrote Simple Wealth Inevitable Wealth: How you and your financial
advisor can grow your fortune in stock mutual funds. He is the director
of a newsletter/spot coaching service for advisors called Nick Murray
Interactive, and is a contributing editor to Financial Advisor magazine.
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John Olsen
Olsen Financial Group
131 Hollywood Lane
Kirkwood, MO 63122
Phone: (314) 909-8818
Email: jolsen02@earthlink.net
John L. Olsen, CLU, ChFC, AEP
is a financial advisor and estate planner practicing in St.
Louis County, Missouri. John has written and taught courses
in insurance, financial, and estate planning and conducted seminars
for agents, planners, and lay audiences. In addition to serving
his own clients, John provides consulting services to attorneys,
accountants, insurance agents, and financial advisors. An increasingly
large part of John's practice is financial planning software
consulting to firms and individual planners. As he receives
no compensation from purchases of software he reviews or recommends,
John is able to offer his clients objective, unbiased help in
determining which programs fit their individual needs.
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Pareto Systems
#323-11186 Spring Hill Drive
Spring Hill, Florida 34609
Phone: (866) 593-8020
Email: inquiries@paretosystems.com
Website: www.paretosystems.com
Pareto Systems provides business development, practice management
and client relationship solutions to the financial services industry.
Pareto Systems' core philosophy is that your business should be predictable,
sustainable and duplicable. We believe that long-term business relationships
must be built on trust. The paretoplatform, a web-based BDRM (Business
Development Relationship Management) solution, ensures success. With
the paretoplatform, proven business-development, practice management
and client relationship processes merge into the perfect BDRM solution.
The paretoplatform has evolved beyond any CRM available to the financial
services industry. Pareto Systems' approach is based on best practices.
We help professionals to understand the 'why,' and more importantly,
the 'how' of successful implementation. This is the essence of The
Pareto System.
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Practice Lifecycle
Website: www.practicelifecycle.com
Practice Lifecycle is a web portal built by some of the most respected industry practitioners for industry practitioners. The portal has been carefully designed to include the critical information advisors need to make both day-to-day and long-term strategic practice management decisions with confidence. Regular contributions from today's industry leaders allow you to operate your practice with a much-needed virtual business consultant by your side.
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RIA Compliance Consultants
1905 Harney St., Ste. 530
Omaha, NE 68102
Phone: (877) 345-4034
Email: bhill@ria-compliance-consultants.com
Website: www.ria-compliance-consultants.com
RIA Compliance Consultants provides registration and renewal services,
mock exams, document reviews, compliance program assessments, and
more. RCC collaborates with investment advisors to identify regulatory
and risk management challenges. We then work with them to build and
implement practical solutions that protect their clients while meeting
their regulatory responsibilities.
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Senior Consultant
1457 Crystal Springs Lane,
Richmond, Virginia 23231
Phone: (804) 643-1075
Email: support@srconsultant.com
Website: www.srconsultant.com
Clearly, today's financial product and service menu has become mind-boggling.
No one understands it or can articulate it in its entirety. Investment
management consulting provides you with the process and technology
that empowers you to articulate the entire financial product and service
menu of the financial services industry, in terms specifically meaningful
to each of your clients. Senior Consultant can help you understand
the six financial services that comprise the Investment Process required
by ERISA and UPIA through which you can add value for each of the
ten major market segments of the individual and institutional investor
markets. This is the science-based process that is shifting the course
of the financial services industry.
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Total Office, Inc.
1170 Sutherland Ave
Akron, OH 44314
Phone: (866) 320-0861
Email: info@totaloffice.cc
Website: www.totaloffice.cc
Virtual office support for financial advisor nationwide. We disburse
account administration functions and administrative office tasks virtually,
so all you do is delegate and it's done. Theres no describing
the relief and freedom our clients experience simply by outsourcing
to Total Office. Truly, anything an administrative secretary can do,
we can do
but more efficiently. Because, youre not paying
us to sit at the water cooler. Nor do you have to supply office space,
taxes, benefits, equipment or training. We simply conduct your paperwork,
web design and office administration off-site, to wherever you are,
whenever you want it, anywhere in the world. By phone, fax or email
we conduct what you dispense, from opening new accounts, to database
management to newsletters, mailings and more.
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Virtual Office News
Phone: (866) 320-0861
Email: sherry@virtualofficenews.com
Website: www.virtualofficenews.com
The Virtual Office News is a monthly newlsetter from David Drucker
and Joel Bruckenstein, the authors of "Virtual Office Tools for
a High Margin Practice." Get the latest news on virtual office
tools and technology, learn how advisors are actually making the virtual
office work for them and receive our periodic "Price Watch" to find
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