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AdvisorBenchmarking
Rydex/SGI
www.advisorbenchmarking.com

By participating in the AB study, you learn how the most successful advisors manage their practices. It also allows you to compare your business to theirs. By learning these best practices and finding out how your firm compares to your peers, you will have the necessary research to build your business.

AdvisorBenchmarking includes a Library of Articles that cover a variety of practice management topics.  They conduct research from their research results and often publish these results in their articles. 

Drucker Knowledge Systems 
David Drucker
www.daviddrucker.com/

David Drucker has been writing articles in various advisor publications for many years.  He has assembled these into compendiums of articles on a variety of topics.  You can order these by visiting his website.


Financial Planning Association (FPA)
www.fpanet.org

The FPA has a number of articles and studies, some for a cost and some are free to download (you must be a member of the FPA).

2010/2011 Financial Planning Salary Survey- The hard copy or digital version can be purchased here.


2012 Research

FPA-ActiFi:FPA-ActiFi Adviser Technology Reports: Rebalancing Software Edition 


2011 Research 

FPA-ActiFi: FPA-ActiFi Adviser Technology Reports: Reporting Software Edition


FPA-ActiFi:
 FPA-ActiFi Adviser Technology Reports: Portfolio Management 


FPA-ActiFi:
 FPA-ActiFi Adviser Technology Reports: Document Management 


2010 Research


FPA-ActiFi:
FPA-ActiFi Adviser Technology Reports: CRM Edition 


FPA-ActiFi:
FPA-ActiFi Adviser Technology Reports: Financial Planning Edition

FPA-ActiFi: FPA-ActiFi Adviser Technology Reports: Compliance Edition

From 2010-2011, ActiFi, partnering with the FPA will release seven in-depth technology reports, sponsored by TD Ameritrade Institutional. This research includes extensive software testing, adviser feedback, and vendor interviews. A free copy will be distributed to FPA members and is available for purchase by non-members for $495 through the FPA Research Center.

This is the schedule:

  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - Q1 2010
  • Financial Planning Software - Q2 2010
  • Compliance - Q3 2010
  • Portfolio Management - Q1 2011
  • Document Management - Q2 2011
  • Report Generation - Q3 2011
  • Portfolio Rebalancing - Q4 2011

Advent User Group(AUG): 2010 Asset Management Operations & Compensation Survey

The study highlights emerging trends and provides benchmarking data that can help asset management executives make key decisions. Conducted periodically, the survey focuses on two areas of vital interest to financial services firms: their technology and their people. Click here for pricing.

FA Insight: 2010 FA Insight Study of Advisory Firms: Growth by Design

From FAI: Now available for purchase, Growth by Design aims to support executive decision making by providing critical data, decisive insight, and lessons from the industry’s Standout firms. The report gives special focus to two distinct business capabilities that drive firm growth—operations and marketing.

Inside Information: The Future of the Financial Advisory Business: Opportunities, Challenges and Trends in the Second Decade of the 21st Century 

White Paper Report, April 2010
www.bobveres.com


Moss Adams/Investment News
2010 Moss Adams/InvestmentNews Financial Performance Study of Advisory Firms


Quantuvis Consulting: Best Practices Studies Series

From QC:The Best Practices Study Series is a four-part study series, taken in simple, manageable segments, representing the most comprehensive study in the industry. Brought to you in an easy, online format, the study series goes beyond reporting to provide you with online analysis of your study data in personalized Dashboards across the four disciplines covered in the series:

  • Best Practices Part 1: Business Performance 
  • Best Practices Part 2: Business Development 
  • Best Practices Part 3: Human Capital 
  • Best Practices Part 4: Operations Optimization 

Firms can participate in the FREE study by inputting firm information.  Once completed, the information remains online in a personalized, confidential dashboard for future reference to continue monitoring your firm.  You also receive a Study Findings Report and can participate in a conference call that details the findings of the study.  Visit the Quantuvis website to learn more.



Tiburon Strategic Advisors

From TSA: Tiburon Strategic Advisors has created a series of research reports to help educate its clients in a low-cost way on a wide variety of topics in the banking, brokerage, investments, insurance, & wealth management markets. The majority of Tiburon's research reports are written for executives at financial institutions; a few reports are written specifically for financial advisors. Tiburon Strategic Advisors has created a series of research reports to help educate its clients in a low-cost way on a wide variety of topics in the banking, brokerage, investments, insurance, & wealth management markets. The majority of Tiburon's research reports are written for executives at financial institutions; a few reports are written specifically for financial advisors.


Wealth Manager/Philip Palaveev
: 2010 Annual Top Wealth Managers Survey
 


2009 Research 


FA Insight
: The 2009 FA Insight Study of Advisory Firms: People and Pay


Moss Adams/Investment News
:2009 Moss Adams/InvestmentNews Adviser Compensation and Staffing Study 


Moss Adams/Pershing Advisor Solutions
:  Mission Possible II: The Link Between Operational Efficiency and Human Capital

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