Not every portfolio manager can become a rock star. But anyone can navigate towards becoming more visible, more respected and more influential. When your opinions really matter, you’ve arrived. Read more »Institutional Marketing Moves into the Spotlight
Posted by Dan Sondhelm
Severe disruption across the asset management industry is driving managers to pursue new distribution strategies. New research from Chestnut Advisory Group indicates that the most successful asset managers are taking an increasingly marketing-led approach to distribution. Read more »6 Tips to Keep Your Compliance Officers Happy
Posted by Dan Sondhelm
How can I work with my firm’s compliance officers? In her latest insight article, Susan Weiner focuses on how marketers and advisors can build constructive working relationships with the compliance professionals at their firms. Read more »Why Financial Advisors Should Embrace Fintech
Posted by Dan Sondhelm
With billions of dollars in venture capital flowing into fintech each year, it is quickly getting to the point where financial advisors must choose whether to fight the onslaught or learn to adopt fintech solutions as a way to better serve their clients. Consider taking advantage of fintech technologies for these four reasons. Read more »Tech Tools for Marketing (Part 2)
Posted by Dan Sondhelm
In the second of the two part series, I discuss additional tools that can automate the production of marketing materials, deliver greater efficiency, transparency and accountability to your sales processes and boost the effectiveness of your inbound marketing initiatives. Read more »Tech Tools for Sales (Part 1)
Posted by Dan Sondhelm
Your sales team shouldn’t spend time researching RIA and broker-dealer web sites and conducting fruitless email marketing and cold call campaigns to advisors who are unlikely to use your strategies and mutual funds. There are a wide variety of technologies that can improve the quality and efficiency of your sales and marketing efforts. In the first of this two-part series, I’ll summarize services that can help you identify growth opportunities in different channels and discover insights around fund flows and specific customers. Read more »Why Public Relations is More Important Than Ever for Asset Managers
Posted by Milin Iyer
If you are a boutique asset manager, how do you stand out when times become volatile, and how will sophisticated investors know what you stand for? A market downturn may be an opportunity to invest in your growth, while others sit on the sidelines. Read more »Harnessing the Power of SEO to Generate Qualified Leads
Posted by Dan Sondhelm
Just building a website doesn’t mean investors will come. It needs to be digitally wired to make it visible and accessible to wandering eyes. An increasing number of advisors are discovering the ROI benefits of search engine optimization (SEO), not only in generating website traffic, but also for attracting more qualified leads. Read more »Numbers and Narrative – A Winning Combination
Posted by Dan Sondhelm
What’s more important to emphasize - a fund’s investment performance analytics or its investment process and management team. Both. To illustrate this point, I figured that a hypothetical analogy - just in time for the start of the baseball season - might be appropriate. Read more »What Asset Managers Can Learn From Vineyards About Marketing
Posted by Dan Sondhelm
Why do we need to spend time developing original content? My web site and wholesalers tell advisors and institutions everything they need to know. Consider the story of a local vineyard that successfully leverages its subject matter expertise to turn wine aficionados like me into loyal customers. Read more »
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