Month: October 2023
Focused on the Future: Maurice Miller: Why the Wealth Management Industry Needs to Rethink New Financial Advisor Compensation Structure

Focused on the Future: Maurice Miller: Why the Wealth Management Industry Needs to Rethink New Financial Advisor Compensation Structure

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In the latest episode of Focused on the Future, veteran industry leader Suzanne Siracuse talks with Maurice Miller, CFP, Managing Director of The Miller’s Wealth Management on reevaluating how new advisors are compensated, assisting your clients in talking about money with their children, and why there is no better time than now to be in the wealth management industry.

Specifically, Maurice discusses:

  • Why, in order to broaden the talent pool into wealth management, we need to challenge the current structure of how new advisors are compensated. 
  • How advisors can advise their clients on talking to their children about money
  • Why embracing technology and understanding the impact of social media is key to achieving success for the future
  • In order to capture younger investors, advisors need to meet them where they are now, AND GROW WITH THEM
  • As people are becoming more comfortable with sharing their personal beliefs it is also impacting their investment selection

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About Our Guest: 

Maurice is driven, consistent, compassionate, and an educator at heart.

He positions clients to take a big picture approach by helping them achieve their financial goals in a concise, sensible manner. Educating clientele on the “why” behind every financial decision along the way, he simplifies their complex needs and goals. The clientele who works with Maurice leave with a clear, written roadmap to their financial future, which focuses on six key areas of wealth management.

Maurice Miller has served small business owners, executives, professionals, and retirees through the financial services industry since 2005.  Maurice also holds the Series 7 & 66 Securities License, health and life insurance agent license, State of Michigan continuing education instructor’s license for CPAs, and the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER (TM), Chartered Financial Consultant®, and Certified Exit Planning Advisor® professional designations.

Maurice is an advisory Board member of C.H.I.P (Changing How Individuals Prosper,) The American College of Financial Services Alumni Network, and is also a member of the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER’S (TM) NATIONAL DISCIPLINARY AND ETHICS COMMISSION.

Maurice is a 2021-2023 Five Star Wealth Manager Award Recipient, a 2022 InvestmentNews 40 Under 40 Honoree, and was inducted into the John Hay High School (Cleveland, OH) Hall of fame in 2023.  He is also the co-creator of a financial literacy curriculum designed for middle and high school students and is also the author of two published books; Navigator Your Way To and Through Retirement, and When The Word Meets The Wallet; a Biblical guide to money management.

 

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Focused on the Future: Luis Rosa: How Leading with Planning, Authenticity and a Specialty Translates to Success

Focused on the Future: Luis Rosa: How Leading with Planning, Authenticity and a Specialty Translates to Success

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In the latest episode of Focused on the Future, veteran industry leader Suzanne Siracuse talks with Luis Rosa the founder of Build a Better Financial Future LLC, on the importance of authenticity in your approach and your business model,  changing the status quo on pricing models, and how his BLX Internship program is cultivating the advisor of the future.

Specifically, Luis discusses:

  • How, by sharing his own personal experiences with money, translates into new clients
  • His strategy on serving first generation wealth creators.
  • Why leading with financial planning is key to capturing the client of the future
  • The ground breaking program he co-Founded, The BLX Internship
  • Why having a specialty will set a practice better up for success

Connect With Suzanne Siracuse:

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About our Guest:

Luis is the founder of Build a Better Financial Future LLC. He came to the U.S. at age 11 from the Dominican Republic. Growing up in New York City and now living in California, Luis noticed the lack of financial literacy in his community and was inspired by his parents to work hard and pursue an education. 

Luis uses his platform to help spread financial literacy via media outreach as well as encourage younger and diverse planners to join and thrive in the industry.

He is the host of the “On My Way to Wealth” podcast, and co-founder of the BlatinX (BLX) Internship Program and co-founder of the SER Latino Advisor Summit. Luis was named one of InvestmentNews 40 Under 40 in 2019 and Financial Advisor Magazine’s 10 Young Advisors to Watch, as well as Investopedia Top 100 Financial Advisors in 2020, 2021, and 2022, and 2023 and named one of 8 Hispanic Personal Finance Influencers to Follow for Money Advice by The Penny Hoarder and NerdWallet.

About BLX:

The BLX Internship Program provides an entryway into the financial planning profession for aspiring Black and Latinx financial planners by helping them obtain paid summer internships with financial planning focused firms.

 



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