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What Client Services Do Wealth Management Firms Provide?

Most CPA firms start their financial advisory services with a basic model of access to financial and investment products and over time add specialization, complexity and integration to arrive at a wealth management model.
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Enhancing Your Clients' Experiences

What does the Ritz-Carlton do, that other hotels don't, that makes your stay with them such a memorable experience? The hotel chain has instilled a culture of treating guests like royalty.
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1st Global BMS Model: Marrying Wealth Management Services and CPA Services by Adopting a New Way of Doing Business

David Davis, champion partner of JY WeathCare, LLC, an accounting firm in San Jose, California, shares his firm’s progression into providing wealth management services to clients and the thought processes behind it.
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Opportunities to Serve

Many new CPA wealth management advisors, accustomed to tax deadlines driving business, view marketing on par with snake oil hucksters and plaid-coated used auto dealers. But what separates truly communicating your value from a “sales pitch” is this: the truth of your statement, the strength of your conviction and the intention behind each to benefit others.
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Wealth Management: What’s in it for You and Why is it Important to Your Firm?

True wealth management firms help their clients with three macro issues: wealth accumulation, wealth protection and distribution and wealth transfer. The spotlight on wealth management is a result of increasing demand from clients, especially baby boomers, for customized personal services.
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How Not Providing Wealth Management Services to Clients May Be a Disservice to Them

Chris Boynton, champion partner of Arxis Financial Inc., an accounting firm in Simi Valley, California, shares his firm’s progression into providing wealth management services to his clients and his thought processes behind it.
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Why Should You Commit Your Firm to a Program of Change that Expands your Wealth Management Practice?

To address this question in a meaningful way, we need to take a long-term and broad perspective. First, your firm is probably experiencing a rush of activity, new business and revenue and profits growth. Sarbanes-Oxley has proven a boon to the profession.
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Creating an Advisory Council Composed of Your Best Clients

Think about the last time someone asked you for your opinion or your input because they value your insight and perspective? Weren’t you somewhat flattered that they reached out to you for advice?
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The Path From CPA Firm to Comprehensive Wealth Management: 1st Global BMS Business Model

Peter W. Adams, champion partner of HPG Financial Services, LLC, an accounting firm in Raleigh N.C., shares his firm’s progression into providing wealth management services to his clients and his thought processes behind it.
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The Optimal Path for Accounting Firms Pursuing Wealth Management Services through Strategic Partnership: A CPA’s Perspective

Robin Matthews, CPA, director of financial advisors at Jones & Roth, CPAs and Business Consultants in Oregon, discusses how Jones & Roth integrated education and marketing tools to leverage their skills to efficiently provide wealth management services to their clients.
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Today vs. Ideal Future: Closing the Gap

Annual business planning typically involves looking at your business and comparing where you are to where you want to be. The strength of your vision for where you want to be is also known as your goal. Your goal is restrained only by the courage and reach of your imagination. The gap between today and goal is the subject of this article.
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What Is Old Is New Again

In September of 2008, our industry experienced the anxiety ridden crisis in what historians generally now refer to as “Lehman weekend,”, which began one of the most difficult tests of our financial advisory careers. It was a capital market event of epic proportions that led to our current economic state.
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At the Controls

As a recent flight prepared to take off, the captain spoke over the loudspeakers, “Ladies and gentlemen, we are all set to take off but I'm afraid we are being delayed by technical problems.” Immediate concerns popped to mind first about how safe the flight would be and if I'd ever see my family again, then irritation at perhaps being late for the afternoon appointment that was the reason for the flight.
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Filling the Void

The financial services crisis of 2008-2009 resulted in the loss of more than a thousand financial advisors and dozens of traditional financial services firms, and it caused tremendous turmoil in the remaining survivors. How do you fill that void given the many constraints facing the typical ensemble (multi-partner) CPA firm today?
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The Evolution of a CPA Firm into a Wealth Management Firm: A CPA's Perspective

Jeff Neher, champion partner of CNC Financial Group, LLC, an affiliate of Cordell, Neher & Company, a premier accounting firm in Wenatchee, WA, discusses the firm’s evolution into a client-centric wealth management firm.
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Where Will Growth Be 2011-2015: Wealthcare vs. Accounting & Tax Preparation?

The purpose of this article is to inform, even possibly awaken, readers to the comparative growth prospects of the wealthcare industry and the combined accounting and tax preparation services industries.
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Opportunities Created by 2011-2012 Federal Estate Tax Patch

The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 (The Tax Relief Act, or TRA) introduced a number of changes in the area of federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes among other items. These changes can have a significant impact on certain high-net-worth families. At the same time, they provide a great opportunity for advisors to discuss with clients their estate plans and help close the gaps where needed.
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Implementing Wealth Management in a CPA Firm: A CPA’s Perspective

Michele Tremblay, champion partner of WABC Wealth Management Services, an affiliate of Weil, Akman, Baylin & Coleman, P.A., a corporation of CPAs in Timonium, Maryland, discusses her history as a CPA working at a respected CPA firm with an in-house wealth management advisor.
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A Case for CPAs in Wealth Management

There are many reasons that CPAs provide wealth management solutions for their clients: clients want their CPAs to be involved, stronger client relationships, higher profitability, and construction of an enterprise-building business model. But there is another very compelling reason that has resulted from the financial crisis of 2008-2009: A vacuum has developed in the financial services marketplace that CPAs are very well-positioned to fill.
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Understanding Tax-Centric Wealth Management: An Advisor's Perspective

David Strother, Financial Services Director of DSF Wealth Management LLC, an affiliate of Darnall, Sikes, Gardes & Frederick, a corporation of CPAs in Lafayette, LA, discusses his history as a financial advisor working with a respected CPA firm.
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