RIA's: Don't let AI scare you, it can increase your margins!

RIA's: Don't let AI scare you, it can increase your margins!

Select Advisors understands the challenges businesses face when integrating AI into their practices. Our AI consulting services offer tailored guidance and solutions to fully leverage the potential of AI. From devising bespoke AI strategies to selecting the right development partner and providing ongoing optimization, we ensure sustainable growth and success.

Conquering the Cocktail Party: Six Steps for Effortless Mingling

Conquering the Cocktail Party: Six Steps for Effortless Mingling

Networking is crucial for career development and business growth. Mastering networking skills leads to valuable connections and opportunities. Strategies include making connections during introductions, confidently approaching groups, excelling at small talk, avoiding controversial topics, and knowing when to move on.

47% of your clients are waiting til you ask them for a referral

47% of your clients are waiting til you ask them for a referral

This interesting research paper from 2014 captures major insight into the behaviors and circumstances that would trigger wealthy clients to refer friends and colleagues to their wealth manager.

Use Gamification with Your Clients and Team for More Growth

Use Gamification with Your Clients and Team for More Growth

Gamification is a powerful tool that can enhance performance and growth in finance, law, and accounting. By applying game mechanics to non-game contexts, it drives engagement and motivation. This article highlights the benefits of gamification and offers five strategies for financial and legal professionals to implement. These strategies include referral contests, financial education quizzes, thought leadership contests, and more. Gamification can increase engagement, improve knowledge retention, foster collaboration, provide real-time feedback, and support continuous learning and development. By embracing gamification, professionals can create an exciting and dynamic workplace culture while empowering their teams to succeed.

SEC Marketing Rule, Rule 206(4)-1 of the Advisers Act

SEC Marketing Rule, Rule 206(4)-1 of the Advisers Act

Advisors are starting to be modernized to the 2020’s by the SEC! In this video interview with attorney Chris Stanely, we learn more about the details of the new adopted amendments to Rule 206(4)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Advisers Act) to modernize the regulation of investment adviser advertising and solicitation practices. More importantly, we discuss how to maximize these updates for your practice’s marketing efforts!

Why now is the most crucial time for advisors to send out a Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey

Why now is the most crucial time for advisors to send out a Net Promoter Score (NPS) Survey

What is the average Net Promoter Score for the financial industry, and why do you need to take an NPS survey from your clients? In this article, we go into the NPS calculation, and share with you a sample NPS Survey you can take to possibly send to your end clients.

Best questions to ask your team during your sales/pipeline review meetings

Best questions to ask your team during your sales/pipeline review meetings

Managing a sales team, or developing a new one, can be frustrating, especially if you don’t know how to best coach your team around sales to develop their pipeline. In this article, we’ve outlined 10 questions to help shape your meetings for better outcome. Learn why we are the best sales training firm for advisory firms and wealth management RIAs

The Most Private of Private Members' Clubs

The Most Private of Private Members' Clubs

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the doors of the world’s most private members clubs?  Discover the opulence of London's newest and most private enclave; where history, art, and extravagance converge. We unveil the secrets of Apollo's Muse, redefining luxury and exclusivity.

Salary and Compensation Rates at Family Offices and RIA's

Salary and Compensation Rates at Family Offices and RIA's

Salary and compensation levels for various roles and titles within the family office space. While these are numbers driven from the single family office space, they can be used as reference levels for the wealth management industry as a whole. Learn about comp structures at advisory firms.

How to Motivate Advisor Teams With Creative Compensation (Comp) Structures: Amy in Barron's Podcast

How to Motivate Advisor Teams With Creative Compensation (Comp) Structures: Amy in Barron's Podcast

Amy Parvaneh was recently published in Barron’s, and recorded for Barron’s Advisor Podcast, about compensation and pay packages that are most suitable for advisory teams and firms around business development. In the recording, she discusses the downfalls of the traditional revenue split, and how to best align your team’s roles and responsibilities (including around business development) with their personality.

Should You Rename Your Advisory Practice?

Should You Rename Your Advisory Practice?

Choosing a name for your practice should not be taken lightly. Name ideas for a wealth management practice are aplenty, but most advisors seem to lean towards the same style and approach, which can be hurting them in the long run. Read this about the art of naming a new or existing advisory practice!

Unique and Different Fee Structures Financial Advisors Can Embrace for Their Practice

Unique and Different Fee Structures Financial Advisors Can Embrace for Their Practice

Tired of the old-fashioned fee-based model for charging your clients, where you charge a percentage on the assets that you manage? Are you losing opportunities because some prospects just want to pick your brain without giving you all their assets to manage? It may be time to revisit your fee structure and come up with unique pricing models for your RIA and wealth management practice. In this article we discuss 10 unique pricing and fee structures for RIAs.

Sports Sponsorships for Financial Businesses: What Are the Key Considerations?

Sports Sponsorships for Financial Businesses: What Are the Key Considerations?

Advisory firms are always seeking ways to expand their brand recognition. One avenue that deserves series consideration is Sports Sponsorships and Marketing. This article discusses how sports sponsorships can help you reach a major new category of eyeballs, but is it always worth it? Let’s find out!

Should you add a Family Office to your wealth management firm?

Should you add a Family Office to your wealth management firm?

In this video, I discuss the future of the wealth management arena given the advent of AI, as well as discuss how wealth management firms can take advantage of adding Family Office services to their practice. What are family office services beyond investing, tax and legal? What other services should you add to your wealth management firm to truly stand apart from the competition?

How to embrace Succession’s "Quiet Luxury" for your Branding and Marketing

How to embrace Succession’s "Quiet Luxury" for your Branding and Marketing

In the face of market volatility, inflation and uncertainty, Minimalism and Quiet Luxury are having a moment. How can wealth managers and any other service providers who work with the ultra rich embrace such a trend as it pertains to their marketing and client experience offering?

Pros and Cons of an Outsourced Chief Marketing Expert for Financial and Legal Firms

Pros and Cons of an Outsourced Chief Marketing Expert for Financial and Legal Firms

In this article we provide answers to your questions such as: Should you have someone in-house, or should you outsource the role of a marketing for your firm? Do you need a marketing strategist, a CMO, a brand strategist, or something in between? What exactly do you need, and should this person be in-house or external? What to look for in a CMO?

5 Client Segmentation Structures to Revolutionize Your Advisory Practice

Feeling overwhelmed about the lack of categorization and organization in your client base? Given two finite resources, time and labor, as an RIA, wirehouse advisor or tax advisor, it’s important to put clear lines between the types of clients you serve and want to acquire, the service quality you provide to each, and your fee plans.

As seen in Kitces: Why The Best Sales Training Approach Depends On Your Unique Sales Personality Style

As seen in Kitces: Why The Best Sales Training Approach Depends On Your Unique Sales Personality Style

Read our latest white paper published on the Michael Kitces website. Sales training programs should be designed around an advisor’s specific personality type. Learn about the three Consultative Sales Personalities our firm has identified, and specific strategies each of those personality types can employ to turn your unique challenges into business development advantages.


Social Media for Investment Advisors and Wealth Managers

Social Media for Investment Advisors and Wealth Managers

In this article we discuss social media strategies for financial advisors in 2023, and ways to help them grow their brand and community using Linkedin, Instagram and other platforms.