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Unlocking the Power of AdvicePay: Revolutionizing Fee-for-Service Financial Planning and Driving Advisor Adoption

May 17, 2023 By: Sean Fannon

Historically, financial advisory firms faced significant challenges in implementing and scaling fee-for-service financial planning due to the complexities of management and compliance associated with fee-for-service billing. This limitation resulted in...

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Topics: Compliance, Retainer Model, Practice Management, User Experience, Fee-For-Service, Enterprise

What's New? Three Key Trends From AdvicePay's Latest Report On Fee-for-Service Financial Planning

April 12, 2023 By: Bill Winterberg, CFP®

The economic challenges of 2022 combined with the rapid increase of inflation and interest rates motivated clients to seek out more than just investment management services from financial professionals. People not only want real financial planning, they ...

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Topics: Compliance, Retainer Model, Practice Management, User Experience, Fee-For-Service, Enterprise

How Fee-For-Service Billing Keeps Clients Fully Invested For the Market Recovery

August 26, 2022 By: Bill Winterberg, CFP®

Stock market declines are a part of the long-term investing process, and unfortunately, nobody can consistently predict when and by how much the next significant drawdown will be. 

Financial professionals encourage long-term investors with prudent advice...

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Topics: Compliance, Retainer Model, Practice Management, User Experience, Fee-For-Service, Enterprise

How to Create an Annual Client Service Calendar for Financial Planning Engagements

July 14, 2022 By: Bill Winterberg, CFP®

The adoption of the fee-for-service financial planning model is changing the dynamics of business operations inside wealth management firms. As low-cost online automated investment services have increased competition for portfolio management and asset...

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Topics: Compliance, Retainer Model, Practice Management, User Experience, Fee-For-Service, Enterprise

How to Charge for Fee-for-Service Financial Planning 💵

July 07, 2022 By: Bill Winterberg, CFP®

The financial services industry is constantly evolving, and one of the evolutions underway right now is the rapid growth of the fee-for-service financial planning business model. For more than 80 years, financial professionals have been charging clients...

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Topics: Compliance, Retainer Model, Practice Management, User Experience, Fee-For-Service, Enterprise

Webinar Recap: Highlights From our Enterprise Roundtable 📢

June 22, 2022 By: AdvicePay

Powered by innovative technologies, the financial planning business model is rapidly evolving into a sustainable fee-based revenue stream. 

The financial services enterprise companies that have already empowered their advisors to implement the latest...

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Topics: Compliance, Retainer Model, Practice Management, Fee-For-Service, Enterprise

Services You Can Provide Under the Fee-for-Service Model

June 09, 2022 By: Bill Winterberg, CFP®

As your firm introduces fee-for-service financial planning to your clients, you may be considering a variety of services to offer that align with your areas of expertise as well as the interests of clients. This overlap is known as the product-market...

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Topics: Compliance, Retainer Model, Practice Management, User Experience, Fee-For-Service, Enterprise

Feature Release: Major Enhancements to the Enterprise Platform

September 17, 2021 By: Mary Moore

Managing the many process components of fee-for-service financial planning as volume grows is increasingly challenging for Enterprise home offices. Firms must track and confirm a myriad of moving pieces, such as: Is there a completed agreement on file...

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Topics: Feature Releases, User Experience, Enterprise

Why Spreadsheets Only Work for So Long

June 10, 2021 By: Honor Randall

Over at AdvicePay, our entire team has been buzzing about the launch of our newest feature: Deliverables

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Topics: Practice Management, Enterprise

The "Why" Behind Deliverables for Enterprise

April 20, 2021 By: Cassie Jackson

In 2019, we launched the Enterprise Platform of AdvicePay. As we continued developing and customizing the platform, we started to hear a recurring request from many firms looking into onboarding with AdvicePay. They needed a way to collect planning fees...

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Topics: Feature Releases, Fee-For-Service, Enterprise