Kehrer Group Highlighter
The Kehrer Group Highlighter packages some of our most important findings, insights, and commentary into bite-size, digestible articles. We make the Highlighters available for free to the entire financial advice community—a small gesture of appreciation for a community that has done so much to support our work.
The Latest Highlighters
Optimizing the Second Story Strategy
According to last year’s BISA-sponsored study by Aite-Novarica, median production of second story advisors in 15 bank-based investment services firms was 2.2 times the median production of branch-based advisors in 28 financial institution practices. Source: Growth...
Banking Scare Not a Big Deal for Financial Advisors
Industry participants report that the crisis that swept away two mid-size banks amid flights of deposits and battered bank market valuations has not had a major impact on financial advisors. According to a Kehrer Group poll conducted over the past week, half the...
Financial Institutions Downshift Wealth Management Ambitions
What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time, the financial press was trumpeting how banks were going all-in on wealth management. American Banker Magazine last March: “Banks of all sizes are expanding their wealth management businesses, seeking to deepen...
How Long Do Advisors Stay with a Firm?
The Importance of Advisor Tenure According to our proprietary database of 2,634 advisors in 151 banks and credit unions, financial institution-based advisors have been with their current firm for only 5.6 years. That is substantially less than the tenure of...
Meet Kehrer Group
Since the founding of Kenneth Kehrer Associates in 1985, the investment advice community in banks and credit unions has looked to Kehrer analytics and insights to inform strategies that drive results. Today we launch Kehrer Group to enhance our capabilities and better...
Disintermediation Déjà Vu
During one of the peer group discussions at our Top Director Awards, the finalists in the mega and large firm categories ruefully reported that, after a hiatus of several years, they were once again facing pushback from bankers about investment sales disintermediating...
Needed: Better Tracking and Reporting
By now you are neck-deep in planning and budgeting for 2023. What metrics are you managing to as you look to the year ahead? Revenue growth? Assets? Profit margin? From our perspective, the core objective of the investment services unit inside a bank or credit union...
Can We Really Tell if Financial Planning Boosts an Advisor’s Production?
You’ve all met this guy, at an industry conference or at the bar afterwards. Perpetual sceptic. “I don’t see that doing more planning helps an advisor sell more. I know lots of top producers who do no planning, and advisors who do lots of planning but are middling...
Which of Your Clients Are You at Risk of Losing?
Most consumer-facing companies ask about the customer satisfaction of every transaction. According to Larry Cohen, director of the Consumer Financial Decisions’ (CFD) MacroMonitor Survey, apparently, there is a constant need to make sure the company is receiving good...
The Cautionary Tale of the Bank-Owned Broker Dealer
According to this year’s Annual Industry Checkup, banks and credit unions that work with third-party broker dealers once again outperformed their counterparts with affiliate BDs. Gross investment services revenue in institutions affiliated with third-party BDs...