Insights

When tough times hit, nothing is more important for an advisor than managing time efficiently. Your priorities are driven by nurturing your firm’s most valuable asset: the trust and confidence of your clients.

In the latest segment of his series, WAA Advisor Development Officer Brian Shapiro dives into the dilemma many financial advisors are facing by attempting to find the time to do everything. He explains the focus should be on what is important: the continued well-being of clients and their families.

In this Q&A, Joey Schultz offers perspective on changing careers and the value of having a plan in place before and after making any career decision.

The merits of Value, Small Cap and Profitability as factors in a diversified equity portfolio have had a challenging time in recent years. Wealth Advisor Alliance Co-Managing Partner Jonathan Rogers provides a comprehensive review of the literature and data around the recent decade over which Value has been outperformed by Growth.

Karma Forrestal shares how she has been advising her clients through this global pandemic in a recent Dimensional Perspectives column. In this Q&A, she offers advice for women considering pursuing a career as a financial advisor.

Feeling disillusioned or sensing your career progression has plateaued can be a sign that you need to pursue a new path. The Wealth Advisor Alliance outlines a variety of different options for you to consider as you think about your next career move.

In the second part of our series on advisor stress, we examine how stress affects financial advisors and investors. Advisors often remind their clients that discipline is required to stay the course to achieve their financial goals, but it is easy to forget that stress management demands the same vigilance.

No one can foresee when these black swan events will occur, or their severity and length, so it is prudent for financial advisors to help their clients navigate through these difficult times with the knowledge that these types of events were factored into their investment plans.

To help financial advisors within our community connect with their clients about the evolving situation, we are offering a check-in questionnaire that can either be sent to clients by email or used during client calls.

Global financial market volatility has yielded anxious days and restless nights for investors and financial advisors since the last week of February. For advisors proactively contacting their clients, the act of making “just one more call” before the end of the day has the potential to wear down even the most resilient advisor.