Oct 30, 2024 | Advisors, Financial Planning, Study Groups
That was a central theme of the eighth annual Kehrer study group on developing holistic advisors. The first afternoon the group dissected the conflicting data on whether banks and credit unions are making progress on increasing advisor planning productivity and plan...
Oct 21, 2024 | Advisors, Benchmarking, Research
Kehrer Group research has demonstrated repeatedly that financial institutions tend to be under repped—they have too few financial advisors given their opportunity. Not only is adding advisors the most direct way to grow the retail wealth management business, adding...
Oct 8, 2024 | Advisors, Banks, Credit Unions, Research
Robust Asset Acquisition Dissipated by Asset Attrition As the business of financial advice has shifted from generating transaction revenue to asset-based compensation, asset growth has become an increasingly important metric for directors of retail wealth management...
Aug 21, 2024 | Advisors, Thought Leadership
Thanks to Chris Cassidy for highlighting the advantages of pursuing a financial advice career in a bank or credit union – access to the institution’s customers/members, the institution’s brand and marketing prowess, and the professional associations: Four Reasons to...
Aug 5, 2024 | Advisors, Benchmarking, Research
A Mixed Report Card The branch referral model at the core of most bank and credit union retail wealth management businesses has resulted in advisors stockpiling clients to the point that serving all of them is problematic; either many clients are underserved, or they...
May 29, 2024 | Advisors, Benchmarking, Wealth Management
Kudos to David Lincoln for responding to Peter Bielan’s charge to name the five metrics needed to manage wealth management in a financial institution during a recent BISA webinar. That is a challenging task, which is why the metrics we track in our benchmarking...
