Dec 2, 2024 | Compensation, Research
Findings from the Kehrer Group Survey of Compensation of Directors of Bank-Based Advisors The incentive structure for compensation of directors of investment services in financial institutions appears to reward revenue growth – two-thirds of the 55 compensation...
Nov 21, 2024 | Advisors, Compensation, Research
Findings from the Kehrer Group Survey of Compensation of Directors of Bank-Based Advisors Many investment services directors in financial institutions experience frequent changes to their compensation plans. Almost half of the directors participating in the...
Nov 17, 2024 | Advisors, Research, Top Directors Awards
Q3 Influencers Poll Points to Recruitment Gains in Banks and Credit Unions We devoted the second day of the 2024 Top Directors Awards Conference to the dual themes of financial advisor recruitment and advisor retention. Why? Because the difficulty in growing...
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 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...
