Your organization’s people strategy should align with your business strategy, and every people-related initiative should result in something that your customers value. Knowing how to find the right people and get them to want to work for you and stay is the secret to competitive advantage. Leverage your human capital and take advantage of these tips to keep your employees engaged within your organization.
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As the office of the controller becomes ever more strategic—creating higher levels of financial visibility to help drive growth and profitability—the financial organization’s relationship to the controller role must evolve as well.
The compensation structure for advisors is evolving from a commission- and transaction-based system to a fee-based, asset management framework that is seen as a mutually beneficial transition for clients and advisors. However, the traditional value proposition for many advisors has been primarily based on their investment acumen and their prospects for delivering better returns than those of the markets. No matter how skilled the advisor, the path to better investment results may not lie with the ability to pick investments or strategies.
Advisors grew assets (both AUM and AUA) by 17% and 15% respectively in 2017; however revenue grew by only 8%. What is the cause of this disconnect between assets and revenues? What are the other trends re-shaping the ultra-wealth advisor market? FOX managing directors David Toth and Karen Rush framed the issues and opportunities that are impacting wealth advisors today, including business growth, pricing strategies, and what's on the mind of ultra-wealthy families. They shed light on the ongoing work that FOX is doing to help advisors.
This year’s FOX Wealth Advisor Forum focused on practical, business-building approaches to the many trends and issues affecting advisors to the ultra-wealthy. The forum offered methods to address the accelerating innovations in investment technology and omni-present cybersecurity risks, as well as the increasing longevity of our clients, intense competition for talent, needed adaptations in the workplace for Millennials, and disruptions in family businesses.
Example document presented at the 2018 FOX Wealth Advisor Forum by James Grubman, Ph.D., Family Wealth Consulting.Session: Longevity, Aging & Incapacity: Cutting-Edge Approaches to Managing Modern Risks
Many employers and family offices find performance reviews can be a challenging task. But with a new take—one that turns a performance review into a career conversation—it can become an opportunity to establish a healthy dialogue that provides space to exchange feedback, assess performance, and “take the temperature” of the manager and staff. The time spent with your team is valuable, as well as critical to the success and cohesiveness of your organization, business, office, or home.
This is the report of findings of the 2018 FOX Multi-Family Office and Wealth Advisor Study.The full report is only available to firms that participated in the study. If your firm participated, please contact your FOX Relationship Manager to obtain a copy of the report. The study represents FOX’s best and most current thinking on the direction of Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) business. The report is presented in three sections, with key takeaways identified for each as follows:
Families of wealth and business-owning families face security risks in their everyday lives, where personal and business risks are often blended and are typically managed by different people and processes. This creates a gap in identifying risks and solutions that can be addressed through a holistic and collaborative risk management approach.
According to the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer, people’s trust in business, government, NGOs and media has yet to recover, revealing growing levels of mistrust globally. However, positive regulatory steps, a renewed focus on client satisfaction and data security, and a clearly communicated social purpose have helped the financial services industry reestablish some of the trust lost during the financial crisis. Yet, only about half of the public view the industry favorably.