The Whole Truth: For Financial Advisors Touchstone Investments

Our hosts share ideas from a Barron’s talk about four trends found in Barron’s Top 100 Teams and then our wholesaler Patrick Farris joins the podcast to discuss COIs, which he is thinking about a little differently. "We work in an industry where we're able to really build our own business," he says. "So why would we not build it with clients that we enjoy working with?"

In this episode, we share highlights from our guests and reflect on the major learnings of 2022.

Today we have Dr. Martijn Cremers on the show. He is the Dean of the Notre Dame Business School, and his research on active management includes a paradigm-shifting paper on active share.

Our guest today is Annalee Kruger, President of Care Right, Inc. for this important episode on the myriad reasons it is critical to have an Aging Plan in place. She has concentrated experience doing senior care planning during her 25-year career in the senior care industry. In addition to her company, Care Right where she advises people on end of life planning, she also founded Plan for Life, which is an educational avenue to earn an elder planning specialist designation.

Touchstone colleagues Mindy Burgess and Jason Zawalich take over the podcast to discuss referrals and business development. They embark on a healthy debate – “To Refer or Not to Refer” and share some creative ideas about how to think differently when it comes to the art of getting referrals.

Financial Services industry veteran Richard Weylman has been a coach at all the major wire houses, and has partnered with Touchstone in the past, so we used this opportunity to re-connect. He talks about the tools he uses, including psychological needs of the affluent and 90-day elevation plans. You hear a lot of people talk about practice management ideas, but it is all in the execution -- and Richard can deliver on that.