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What can financial advisors expect when they join Royal Alliance? A dynamic team of professionals whose ambition and drive to succeed has made us the broker-dealer of choice for the industry’s sophisticated and highly successful business owners. In joining Royal Alliance, they join a broker-dealer with the resources, capital and experience of one of America’s largest networks of independent advisors – as well as the personalized support and services associated with a smaller firm.
I am pleased to share that Royal has expanded our Operations Center -- a dedicated Operations and Customer Service team based in New York -- to support Royal Alliance's advisors exclusively. The Operations team now includes 29 experienced professionals to provide advisors with a more personalized level of service.
Royal’s Transition Concierge Service, also located in our New York office, is available with customized services and is designed to get advisors back to full production as quickly as possible. Services include: software training, assistance in the transfer of accounts, licenses and registrations, and a 90-day success plan.
We’re excited that our talented Transition and Operations teams will continue to showcase the culture of our firm while providing both new and current advisors with a positive experience.
I'd like to share the news that Royal Alliance's parent company, Advisor Group, was recently named to the InformationWeek 500 list of top technology innovators across America. The annual list recognizes the nation's most innovative users of business technology. And while I'm excited by the news, I'm not surprised. Our technology team's focus has always been to provide advisors with industry leading systems, platforms, and technology tools to help them streamline their operations and grow their businesses.
What won us this specific award is our innovative VISION2020 Advisor Portal. The Royal Alliance Advisor Portal is a single sign-on website that provides advisors access to their home office websites, client account information through our exclusive account platforms, personalized news and alerts, and much more. The dynamic, customizable, intuitive web portal integrates resources and aggregates information, allowing advisors to conduct business quickly and efficiently.
What's more, our Advisor Portal won this award before our team made a number of enhancements, including introducing sophisticated wealth management software and social media capabilities.
I encourage you to take a look around our site and talk to our recruiters to learn about all that Royal Alliance has to offer. Our investments in technology have paid off with a 97% advisor retention rate, a host of new recruits in the last year and, now, national recognition.
We are extremely excited about our new state-of-the-art Wealth Management advisory platform. With our second phase rollout announced in May, we have been hearing positive feedback about this enhancement from our advisors. The financial press has also picked up on this story. Here’s what they’ve been saying recently:
“Advisor Group has continued to invest in and drive its competitive approach to technology… For advisers who want to embrace the market as a hybrid, doing both commission and fee-based work, and crave flexibility when it comes to adopting a registered investment advisory model at a competitive price, the Vision 2020 Wealth Management platform is going to be compelling.”
-- InvestmentNews May 29, 2011
“[Advisor Group] The New York-based owner of FSC Securities, Royal Alliance and SagePoint Financial has slashed prices for fee-based advisors, raised payouts for big RIAs, re-engineered its master deal with Envestnet Asset Management, and has invested a “seven-figure amount” in new technology.”
-- RIABiz, June 9, 2011
“Advisor Group launched Vision2020 Wealth Management on Thursday, a platform with portfolio management and trading tools that aims to help advisors meet their clients’ needs, whether they have fee-based or hybrid business models...The product seamlessly integrates into advisors’ existing open-architecture technology.”
-- Financial Planning, June 3, 2011
“Advisor Group Introduces Features-Laden Vision2020 Platform… The Advisor Managed Portfolio option lets advisors tap into a wide spectrum of investments, to design and implement customized portfolios for their clients. It also includes modeling and trading tools that allow for easy execution, rebalancing and ongoing portfolio management.”
-- Bank Investment Consultant, June 6, 2011
“Matt Montgomery, the sole proprietor of Montgomery Financial Designs, works through Royal Alliance Associates Inc. and has been on the platform for three months. ‘The neat thing is that the platform allows me the freedom to create my own models,’ Mr. Montgomery said. ‘But if you don't want to manage your own, this platform has pre-prepared models that you can use. Very simple, very explanatory to the client and very easy to run.”
-- InvestmentNews, May 29, 2011
“Advisor Group Launches State-of-the-Art Wealth Management Platform for Fee-Based Advisors”
-- Yahoo Finance, June 1, 2011
We recently held our 2011 National Education Conference in Phoenix Arizona. More than 1,000 advisors, guests, administrative assistants, sponsors, and home office staff joined us for four days of extensive training, education, and business building sessions. It was great to see so many of our Royal Advisors and their families at the event.
We had well-respected keynote speakers including Ken Dychtwald from AgeWave talking about the impact of the retirement wave that is starting to break, and Ron Insana from CNBC who spoke about the financial markets and the current political environment. We also had a number of training sessions that helped advisors and their assistants learn more about all of the new technology enhancements we’ve rolled out this past year.
Meetings like these are what Royal Alliance is all about – our advisors networking and sharing ideas and best practices with one another on how best to serve their clients and grow their practices.
I’m sure many of you have seen our “All Ways Open Architecture” ads that are running in the broker-dealer trade publications, especially online.
This new campaign is based on the proposition that successful advisors need to be looking for a truly “open” way to set up and run their independent practices, in order to achieve the growth to which they aspire. We redefine what “Open Architecture” means, and then let advisors know that they can only get it at Royal Alliance or one of our sister firms. Whether it’s for our open platforms, systems, custody, clearing, and affiliation models, or our strength and stability, advisors in motion should be picking up the phone and talking to us. If true open architecture is something you are looking for in a broker-dealer, let’s start that conversation today.
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More than 300 people attended our 2011 Women's Conference in San Antonio, Texas, on February 27 - March 1. Attendees participated in a number of educational programs focused on practice management and client service.
I believe that having a conference dedicated to female financial advisors and the unique experiences and insight they have is truly a worthwhile endeavor. The panel of speakers this year were extremely knowledgeable and a great inspiration to us all.
I was delighted with the event's turnout This year's women's conference was a complete sellout. We are proud to offer our female advisors this unique opportunity to learn about new trends and best practices, as well as network and share experiences with one another. Female advisors are tremendously important to the financial services industry and we are absolutely committed to their success.
I recently recorded a video welcoming advisors to our Web site. If you didn’t see it on our homepage, take a look at it here:
Open Architecture Redefined. That’s a fairly bold statement. And, we don’t make it lightly. At Royal Alliance, we truly believe that our new VISION2020 Wealth Management platform can transform the way our affiliated advisors operate their fee-based practices. How? By integrating the research, investment products and business tools they need to efficiently accomplish the critical tasks associated with building their advisory business:
- Model Portfolios Managed by Multiple Investment Strategists
- Leading Separate Account Managers
- A dynamic Unified Managed Account Solution
- Advisor Directed Accounts
- Cutting-edge Portfolio Management Tools
This new resource was created with our advisors – and their practices – in mind. Chat on-line with a Royal Alliance recruiter to learn more about this new addition to our Royal line-up.
I am pleased to announce that Kevin Beard has joined Royal Alliance Associates as Senior Vice President, Recruiting. Kevin joins us from the Rehmann Group, where he served as Director, responsible for recruiting and acquisition of wealth management firms, as well as developing strategies on the distribution of platforms within other CPA firms and broker dealers.
Previously, Kevin was with Innovative Advanced Resources LLC of San Diego, Pacific Select Group of Newport Beach, VESTAX Securities, ING Advisors Network, National City Bank, and Merrill Lynch.
Kevin is an excellent addition to our recruiting team. He knows our business and is well versed in the independent space. More importantly, he has a keen sense of what it takes to ensure a good fit between advisor and firm. At Royal Alliance, we hold ourselves up to high standards, and we look for advisors who share that drive to be among the best in the business. These expectations are set in the earliest stage of the relationship, starting with recruiting.
With his background and experience, I am confident that Kevin will be an integral part of our continued growth. He is one more reason to be confident that when you join Royal, “You’ve Arrived.”
At Royal Alliance, we ask ourselves “What can we do – today and every day – to exceed expectations?”
I believe the answer is industry-leading service, diverse product offerings and platforms, cutting-edge technology and outstanding education/training opportunities.
Now I can add premier marketing support to the list.
Royal Alliance has entered into an agreement with Forefield to provide our affiliated advisors with high quality, customizable, pre-approved marketing materials. And we’ve made this available to them at no cost.
Forefield is the industry’s leading provider of marketing solutions for financial advisors. Advisors have the ability to customize over 3,000 professionally created marketing resources, conveniently accessible through our Advisor Portal. In addition to the marketing resources, Forefield also offers built in education modules that provide continuing education (CE) credits for many industry designations including the CFP®, ChFC®, CLF®, CLU®, RHU®, and REBC®.
Advisors also have access to FINRA reviewed seminar presentations, newsletters, client presentations, website content and much more.
We are happy to be able to provide this as part of our ongoing effort to bring our advisors tools that can help them grow their business.
Give our Recruiting Department a call at 866-849-7673 and let us exceed your expectations.
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