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...
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...
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...
