Special Reports

• Onboarding New Clients

  

  We look at how firms targeting specific client types are using a variety of methods, including electronic processing, to bring them onboard

• Effective use of Trainees

  

  We talk to adviser firms about why they run their trainee development schemes, what works and what doesn’t and how they ensure the programme best benefits their businesses

• Getting the best from your recruitment process

  

  Jess Wood talks to FE’s HR manager Emma Hanney, about what firms can do to help themselves get the best results from their recruitment process

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• How to build client coaching skills into your practice

  

  Chris Budd, managing director of Ovation Finance, provides insight into the art of coaching clients within financial planning meetings to help them achieve their goals.

• Jess Wood interviews Dawn Pearce-Herzberg of Vines Row

  

  Jess Wood, managing director of recruitment company Sandringham Wood, talks with Dawn Pearce-Herzberg, MD of Vines Row, the sale and aquisition broker.

• Attracting younger clients to your business

  

  A younger client base can build longevity into an adviser business but how do you go about attracting younger clients and make it profitable for your business now?

• Growing your business – expanding your client bank

  

  In this ABR Special Report we talk to three adviser firms with clearly defined growth plans about the strategies they are using to acquire new clients of the kind they want to service in 2016

• Business advice for financial planning start-ups

  

  Thinking of starting your own financial planning business? We asked successful financial planning business owners for the advice they would give to a start-up firm

• Q&A with iPipeline UK Managing Director Ian Teague

  

  ABR editor Rob Kingsbury questions iPipeline’s Ian Teague about the company, how it has developed the UK operation since acquiring Assureweb in 2012 and its latest adviser-focused products

• Special Report: Protecting client data

  

  How can adviser firms ensure they keep their client data safe? We talk to a number of firms about how they deal with data security and provide some take-aways from those conversations

• Marketing strategies of adviser firms

  

  One way of determining whether marketing works is to talk to those who do it. So for this ABR Special Report we interviewed a number of advisory firms about why and how they market their services

• Special Report: EIS in tax planning strategies

  

  Benefits in regard to minimising the tax on income, capital gains, savings and estate is a real consideration for clients today and a major factor driving increased EIS investment

• Virtual PA and Admin Support Services

  

  In this Special Report we highlight the pros and cons of outsourcing to Virtual PA and Admin Support firms, including the experience of advisers already using these types of services