Advisor At Risk

Advisor at Risk is the complete resource for taking control of risk and securing good business.

Discover how to build successful, long-lasting, and mutually beneficial client-advisor relationships to protect and benefit your business! With Advisor at Risk, Ellen Bessner gave the investment industry a complete resource for controlling risk. Now in the sequel, Communication Risk, the best-selling author and expert litigation lawyer takes on one of the most fraught issues facing financial professionals today: the dangerous communication gap between advisors and their clients. Over her 25+ years in law, Ellen has seen too many distressed professionals spend countless hours fighting clients in court. The disputes vary, but the root cause is always the same: the failure of both parties to understand each other. Communication Riskhelps you bridge this critical gap, and avoid the stress, time, and reputational damage of costly court battles and defending your license and reputation. Using insight, humour, and fascinating real-world cases, Bessner lays out the dangers, reveals the traps, and offers simple directions for building successful relationships with your clients. Includes the companion Communication Risk Investor's Guide to help your clients communicate more effectively with you. "Bang on for anyone in a financial advisory role... this is a must-read."--Jordy W. Chilcott, Head of Investment Distribution, Sun Life Global Investments Who Should Read This Book? Investment advisors Financial advisors Financial planners Dealer representatives Supervisors Portfolio managers Insurance professionals And anyone serving clients in the financial industry from rookies to experienced professionals

Long-term value creation—the board's new agenda. A big shift in public ownership has created a new set of challenges for boards. Index funds managed by firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street represent an emerging class of permanent institutional investors who are focused on creating and preserving long-term corporate value. These investors are stating in no uncertain terms that simply managing for short-term shareholder profit is not acceptable. Bill McNabb, Ram Charan, and Dennis Carey have been on the front lines of these changes with the investment community, corporate boards, and top-level management teams. Since TSR (total shareholder return) cannot keep the short and long term in balance, the authors argue, boards should focus on a different kind of TSR—talent, strategy, and risk—because decisions and actions around these factors, more than any others, determine whether or not a company creates long-term value. This book redefines the board's agenda and explains how to: Build and incentivize the right leadership team Help leaders take a longer view and communicate it to investors Refresh board composition and create diversity to meet the new challenges Keep major risks, such as cyberattacks and sexual harassment allegations, front and center Analyze the business through the eyes of a shareholder activist With the new realities of corporate ownership, boards need to lead for the long term. This authoritative book shows them how.

In Smart Risk, leading wealth catalyst and portfolio manager Maili Wong shows how to achieve your financial purpose with a "Smart Risk Investing Roadmap." This roadmap builds a foundation based on purpose, poeple, plan perspective and positive action.

This book fulfills its promise as a peerless tool for physicians wanting to make good decisions about the risks they face.

User-friendly risk management tools, tips, and techniques for a less certain world Though a very high level of investor uncertainty, anxiety, and concern about risk now exists, the vast majority of investors do not genuinely understand investment risk-let alone how to effectively manage it. The Risk-Wise Investor offers a totally new, user-friendly, non-technical way to help you better understand and manage uncertainty and risk. This practical guide will help investors avoid many common pitfalls and make well informed, knowledge-based decisions when facing uncertainty and risk. It also shows how to implement a personalized, systematic risk management planning process that will allow you to manage the risks you face more effectively and improve the likelihood of achieving specific investment goals. Though traditional investment advice is based on taking the long view and diversifying portfolios, the information here shows how to incorporate additional risk management considerations into your plans. The Risk-Wise Investor also provides innovative insights that will help investors and their advisors better understand how to: Gain a practical, user-friendly, knowledge based understanding of risk and risk management Better understand and manage financial uncertainty and rapid change Release life-risk management skills in the world of investments Become less anxious, more knowledgeable, realistic, and potentially more successful investors Learn a new "empowering" definition of risk to more effectively address risk and uncertainty Help reduce the likelihood and potential impact of negative surprises