Insights

Client experience

The conversations that decide whether a client stays: reviews, drawdowns, fees, the surviving spouse, and the ones who will not spend.

Client experience

“I could have just bought the index” →

The most common challenge in the business, and the one most advisors answer worst.

Client experience

Keeping the next generation →

Most heirs change advisor after inheriting, usually because they had never met you.

Client experience

Nobody owns the coordination →

Adviser, accountant, attorney — and the consequences surface in April.

Client experience

Talking about fees without flinching →

Most fee conversations fail before they start, and the client can hear it.

Client experience

The client who will not spend →

A career teaching people to save, and then they retire and cannot stop.

Client experience

The first ninety days →

Clients decide what this relationship is on operational evidence, not advice.

Client experience

The meeting nobody designed →

The most repeated event in a practice, and its agenda is whatever the software printed first.

Client experience

They did not come to hear about you →

Most advisers run the first meeting as a presentation. That is the error.

Client experience

What clients actually read →

Reporting built to demonstrate thoroughness. The evidence nobody reads it is in your inbox.

Client experience

What to say when it falls →

The most valuable thing you can say about a decline has to be said before one happens.

Client experience

When a client's spouse dies →

Most widows leave their late husband's advisor. The reason is almost never performance.

Client experience

When to fire a client →

Most principals carry them for years, and the reason is rarely economic.

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