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Prioritize Your Mental and Physical Health

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 Rory Henry, a Behavioral Financial Advisor, is the director at Arrowroot Family Office and co-founder of AFO Wealth Management Forward. He has created a program to help accounting professionals incorporate holistic wealth management and proactive planning services into their practice.

Before you start adding new service offerings, read this.

By Rory Henry
The Holistic Guide to Wealth Management

Most of you reading this article are highly motivated, highly disciplined individuals with a keen eye for detail and incredible dedication to your clients. I’m sure many of you are thinking about ways to squeeze even more productivity out of your day so you can find time to incorporate financial advisory services into your thriving practice.

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We all know about the burnout epidemic plaguing the accounting profession, and it’s not just a mental health issue. Before you start burning the candle at both ends, please review the cautionary tales of highly accomplished CPAs and entrepreneurs below who’ve had to make significant recalibrations to their lives when their health ultimately failed them.
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Add Health Care Planning to Your Firm’s Services

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 Christine Simone is the CEO & co-founder of Caribou, a software solution for the finance industry to include health care costs and plan optimization in financial plans.

Reduce client stress and build stronger financial futures.

By Christine Simone
The Holistic Guide to Wealth Management

Financial advisors are well suited to help clients with all the important decisions in their lives. But that doesn’t mean advisors always recognize the areas in which clients need the most help.

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Take health insurance, a big concern for people across all income groups. According to a 2021 report from Spectrem Group (now part of CEG Insights), two-thirds of affluent investors (65%) say they want their advisors to help them with health insurance, but only 4 percent said their financial advisors are providing it to them (see bar chart). Further, among people who don’t have financial advisors, the top areas for which they would want guidance are retirement income planning, Social Security planning and Medicare advice.
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From Experiences to Transformations: The Future of Value Creation.

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When advisors talk about differentiating themselves from the pack, the conversation often centers on providing better service models, improved technology, or more personalized experiences.

But according to Fortune 500 management advisor Joe Pine, those levers are no longer enough. The real opportunity lies one level deeper: helping clients change.

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Cofounder of Strategic Horizons LLP, Pine is the co-author of The Experience Economy and author of the newly released The Transformation Economy. He argues that the U.S. economy has continued its long arc first from commodities, then to goods, services and experiences, and now to transformations. In this next transformation phase, the customer is no longer buying a product, activity or even a memorable event. They are investing in who they want to become. READ MORE →

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Who Is Your Ideal Wealth Management Client?

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 Kelly Waltrich is the co-founder of Intention.ly, a leading marketing consultancy to fintech and finserv companies.

You’ll need to market, but set business goals first.

By Kelly Waltrich
The Holistic Guide to Wealth Management

For CPAs, offering holistic wealth management services can be a game changer for your practice. These services are a clear opportunity to provide top-notch guidance to clients while fueling additional revenue streams.

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But let’s be real – simply hanging out a “wealth management” shingle won’t cut it in an industry in which competition is abundant, and differentiation is key. Making your clients and prospects aware of your expanded offerings, and growing your business as a result of those offerings, requires a much more targeted approach.
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Seven Keys to Maintaining Trust

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 Julie Johnson, CIMA, CFP,  is the founder and chief engagement officer of XY Communication and a former senior vice president with UBS. She helps financial professionals to increase engagement with existing clients, prospects and peers by improving their ability to communicate, connect, and build trust and loyalty.

Yes, with your clients, but also with your team.

By Julie S. Johnson
The Holistic Guide to Wealth Management

The Insurance Network for Fiduciary Advisors reported that 96 percent of clients are looking for wealth transfer advice from their advisors while they’re still alive, but fewer than one in four (25%) of financial professionals provided it to their clients.

Why is there such a disconnect?

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So many financial professionals have told me it’s not their job to hold clients’ hands during the emotional challenges of death, divorce, inheritance. “They hire us to take care of their financial goals and challenges, not be their therapist,” advisors tell me again and again. This comment, and multiple variations of it, are what I hear often after speaking or writing on this topic.

That disconnect is your opportunity as a CPA!
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