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...
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...
Jul 18, 2024 | Benchmarking, Research, Wealth Management
Existential Challenge to Retail Wealth Management in Financial Institutions Referrals from client facing branch staff are the foundation of retail wealth management in banks and credit unions. Access to the institution’s customers/members has helped the...
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...
Feb 15, 2024 | Advisors, Banks, Benchmarking
As advisors in financial institutions built their practices, they acquired clients referred by branch staff. In retrospect, most of them acquired too many clients. Too many to serve well, and so many that they became obstacles to the advisor’s efforts to grow...
Dec 7, 2023 | Advisors, Benchmarking, Top Directors Awards
The Kehrer Group Top Directors Awards recognize the leaders of the top performing investment services firms in financial institutions. We invite nominations from the entire bank and credit union financial advice community, and use a transparent, data driven...
