Do you wish to remodel your monetary advisory apply? Enhance your understanding of advanced monetary ideas and funding options? Find out about modern instruments that can assist you function at scale?
Among the best methods to take action is to attend an trade convention or one provided by your advisory agency companion. You’ll hear from main thinkers within the monetary providers area, and you’ll get to attach with a group of your friends in a novel social setting.
Commonwealth believes within the energy of studying and group. We’ve a protracted historical past of providing instructional—and enjoyable!—conferences to our advisors. And in November 2022, we had been elated to carry our first in-person Nationwide Convention since 2019. Practically 2,000 advisors and their employees, trade companions, and residential workplace employees met in San Diego for 4 days of enterprise updates, inspiring keynotes, informative breakout periods, instructive workshops, and particular occasions.
With a theme to “Discover the Good,” our mission was to have fun the work our attendees do every day to assist their purchasers, colleagues, and communities.
Sharing Our Imaginative and prescient
We at all times have our eye on enhancing the private {and professional} lives of our advisor group, and we’re undoubtedly not ones to relaxation on previous success. We come to the Nationwide Convention ready to share main enterprise updates and initiatives with our advisors, to allow them to study every little thing we’re doing to keep up our independence and assist their development objectives.
This 12 months, we introduced three major initiatives:
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Our objective of reaching $1 trillion in AUM within the subsequent decade, permitting us to extend reinvestment within the agency to profit our advisors
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A discount of our platform charge pricing, bringing price financial savings to advisors and their purchasers
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An growth of our outsourced business solutions providing, permitting advisors to scale their companies
Inspiring Private Development and Change
In fact, no convention can be full with out keynote audio system to thrill and encourage.
On our primary stage, sharing insights on private development, giving again to the group, and paying it ahead, was Earvin “Magic” Johnson, basketball Corridor of Famer, NBA legend, and entrepreneur. He was joined by Laila Ali, four-time undefeated boxing champ, best-selling writer, mom, and spouse, who talked with our personal Peggy Ho, senior vp, common counsel, and chief danger officer, in an intimate hearth chat.
Attendees additionally heard from Mia Hamm, American soccer icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist and World Cup champion, about main groups and provoking change in a hearth chat with Andrew Daniels, managing principal, advisor engagement. J.J. Johnson, chief communications officer and government vp of communications, public affairs, and coverage at Constancy Investments, chatted with John Rooney, managing principal of our San Diego workplace.
Rounding out this panel was Robert Mazur, the previous DEA agent who infiltrated Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel. He delivered an enthralling and informative true-life account of his expertise throughout our Anti-Cash Laundering session.
Advancing Advisor Data
Monetary advisors have an incredible quantity of experience, however between operating a enterprise and caring for purchasers, it may be tough to remain on high of the newest merchandise, methods, and instruments. Our deep bench and consultants from the trade companion companies that joined us delivered a complete agenda of periods that aligned with the next three content material pillars:
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Evolve: This was all about serving to advisors perceive what they will do now to evolve their apply. Adopting an ensemble enterprise mannequin, going fee-only, and utilizing empathy and curiosity to deepen consumer connections had been a couple of subjects we lined.
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Develop: Many profitable advisors are targeted on rising their companies and their information. Classes included methods to meet the needs of high-net-worth clients, methods to recruit younger girls to the trade, and methods to use lead era providers successfully.
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Movement: Success usually hinges on with the ability to run an environment friendly apply. We dug into the nuances surrounding advanced merchandise, methods to leverage Commonwealth’s powerful technology platform, and methods to defend purchasers from cybercrime.
Nurturing Our Neighborhood
Based on McKinsey & Company, 66 % of Gen Z believes “communities are created by causes and pursuits, not by financial backgrounds or instructional ranges.” We agree. It’s why our Neighborhood staff, led by Jessica Fougere, senior vp, is concentrated on growing microcommunities of advisors centered on enterprise niches, objectives, or private passions.
Our objective is two-fold: we wish to assist advisors really feel a part of one thing larger than themselves. And we wish to permit them to foster and deepen connections by sharing insights and finest practices. By doing so, we assist elevate the skilled and private development of our community.
The Nationwide Convention was a sandbox for these efforts. We provided alternatives for various teams—chief working officers, members of household practices, next-gen advisors, and Commonwealth girls advisors—to come back collectively and develop relationships that may keep it up lengthy after the convention ends.
Need a nearer look? View this interactive SlideShare for a glance behind the scenes and learn the way inspiration, studying, and group converged at our Nationwide Convention.
The place Will the Future Take You?
Our subsequent Nationwide Convention is already on the calendar for October 11–14, 2023, in Colorado. Will we see you there? Contact us today to study whether or not Commonwealth could possibly be the agency companion to energy your apply into the longer term.
