Podcasts & Videos

Meet Roger: Having spent twenty-five years himself as a financial advisor at Hambrecht & Quist, UBS PWM, and Credit Suisse, Mr. Gershman brings a unique perspective to the recruiting and consulting world of financial advisors. With this real-life experience, he now runs the family consulting firm his father founded 40 years ago who also was…

  Roger Gershman here again for a three minute drill and landscape update on our beloved industry. Seeing it from your eyes, A really great week for Wall Street what Goldman Sachs announced layoffs. Well, the last bastion of profitability at the bank is the private wealth division. Very surprisingly, they’ve laid off several producers…

  Roger Gershman here, with a three minute drill on the state of affairs of the markets, today’s podcast is, why not just leave for the check. And that’s what many advisors tell me, Oh, that advisor left for the check, or they leave for the check. And they have not as much of an…

  Today’s podcast is about the value of independence. And why seriously consider going in the banks and brokerage firms have become a real thorn in advisor sides. They’re more interested in shareholder value, they’re more interested in compliance are more interested in legal, and they’re interested in the lowest common denominator of the financial…

Today’s podcast is about why would you ever consider departing your firm in a tough or bear market? Mean, frankly, it’s never a good time to exit. I mean, think about the last few years, I mean, the businesses have been booming and advisors to bring on new clients and bring on new staff. And…

Why do advisors believe that they have the inside edge to negotiate their own deal and go direct advisors invariably know somebody on the inside of the, of the competition. They know senior leadership, they know the local manager, they might even know the CEO. They might be friends with them. They might be neighbors…

This podcast is called the tug of war banks versus financial advisors. For years, there was a difference between banks and their products in their offerings, Merrill Lynch, UBS, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Raymond James RBC, Hebert inquest, Alex Brown, Deutsche Bank. Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns. And so each firm had their belly…

This podcast is about why your business just may not grow for the next decade. Why not? Well, why wouldn’t we enter a bear market where markets are flat for 10 years, Stanley Drucken miller, who is one of the most respected minds on Wall Street, whose average any returns were 30% for almost 20…

Who is the Boogie Man? The Boogie Man is your compliance department who knew this already? You knew that they’re watching, but we’ve seen a massive increase in the scale of firms watching over the shoulder of those advisors with massive divisions within your firm that are getting more and more efficient. Watching everything you…