Apr 18, 2024 | Advisors, Credit Unions, Research
Kehrer Group Annual Checkup Finds Credit Unions Overtaking Banks According to this year’s Kehrer Group Annual Industry Checkup, the number of credit unions providing investment services continued its slow but steady climb during 2023. Registered financial...
Apr 8, 2024 | Advisors, Industry Trends, Research
Advisor Extenders Pose Omni Channel Management Challenges The Kehrer Group 2023-2024 Annual Industry Checkup underscored the long-term reliance of financial institutions on advisor productivity gains to drive growth in the wake of flat advisor headcount. ...
Feb 20, 2024 | Advisors, Research
Adding advisors naturally drives additional revenue to the firm. But research from Kehrer Group demonstrates that increasing advisor headcount increases revenue exponentially. In the chart we’ve plotted the number of number of advisors per million of core...
Oct 27, 2023 | Business Strategy, Financial Planning, Research, Thought Leadership
Drawing on the rich consumer data in RFI Global’s MacroMonitor, Kehrer Group found that engaging in financial planning is a win for banks and credit unions, a win for their advisors, and a win for their customers and members. From the standpoint of the institution,...
Oct 25, 2023 | Bank BDs, Benchmarking, Industry Trends, Research
New Study Chronicles 20 Years of Mergers and Outsourcing Deals This past year has witnessed an acceleration of the shrinkage of the financial institution-owned broker dealer segment, as banks and credit unions merge or fail, or they outsource the broker dealer...
Oct 11, 2023 | Banks, Business Strategy, Credit Unions, Research, Thought Leadership
Banks and credit unions commonly use profit margin to assess the performance of their investment services businesses. What are the consequences of this management approach for the health of the business? By comparing the performance of firms with wider profit margins...