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    Posted: Oct/08/2014 at 7:37pm
Hello,

I am glad I found this forum. I am currently a PMD at merrill and still studying for my exams. To give you a background of myself I previously worked in an investment company for a little over a year in operations and have a masters in finance. I have been managing money on the side (no compensation though) for a few years and have some households to bring over including my own family's day 1. 

I am looking to learn and get ideas on how to build my practice. 

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Welcome! Those accounts should buy you a little time, depending on their size. Good luck!
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Good luck. I got my start at an investment company too doing ops.
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Welcome. What is a PMD? I am not familiar with ML lingo.
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Welcome to the forum. We have a few ML guys... I think Joker knows about the PMD.
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Practice Management Development program, aka Poor Mans Dream program.  You'll fail out.  Hate me now, but later you'll realize I'm right.  Just be ready to move that money back out in 1-2 years when you're sucking wind.
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Don't bring your family accounts til year 3/4 when you are no longer a rookie
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Originally posted by RickRoss RickRoss wrote:

Practice Management Development program, aka Poor Mans Dream program.  You'll fail out.  Hate me now, but later you'll realize I'm right.  Just be ready to move that money back out in 1-2 years when you're sucking wind.

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thanks for your honesty. Day 1 ill have $1.5 million in wrap accounts, 3 households. I really like ML's training program and I am learning how to listen to the clients needs and wants and ask powerful questions to make myself relevent as a FA to put an answer to their problems. 

If i fail, I fail...but I will learn how to prospect, service clients, wealth management, and so forth. ML is paying for my series 7, 66, and insurance so along with the training, I will be quite valuable to other investment firms out their if I do "fail out". 

What I am hoping to do is see if I can be placed into a bank of america branch. From what I hear, it's getting a constant stream of warm referrals at the bank. 
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You sound like you're drinking koolaid straight from the bull's d(&*
 
1.5MM will give you a two month head start. Two months isn' t much... whether you succeed or fail will ultimately have nothing to do with whether or not you manage your family's money.
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apc707, I am guessing you are also giving the hometown discount to these folks (your parents) so the revenue will likely be less than $10k PCs. 

Let me show you a magic trick. 

Check the branch newsletter and find out who is #2 or #3 on Net New Housholds - show him the $1.5, tell him he can sign it for FOG or whatever shit that they are doing now and ask for $3mm of fee based assets in return. Also ask for some mortgages, and dead weight clients to call and network with - another $1 to $2mm. $1.5mm to $5mm (except it will still only pay $10k pcs),


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That's a no go, these three households are not a bargaining chip, they really believe in me. 

Although I know that task at hand is tough, I am not deterred and will prospect haard. Going to work my ass off, this is my job so Im gonna give it my all

$1.5M in a wrap account charging 1.3% is $19,500 PCs/yr. 

I don't buy mutual funds, I allocate individual stocks/some etfs and bonds~ That's my differentiation. At the investment company I worked for before I was trained under the warren buffett style of investing, value investing. I do discounted cash flow analysis to determine the future stock price and do analysis on the fundamentals of the business, ect. ect. Master in finance~

I am building my prospect list and have about 250, will add more doctor offices. I will try to network with doctors as clients, and I sort of know many of them just plain don't know much about money. 

Time will tell, but even if I fail, I will have learned so much and if need be, move over to morgan stanley, start my own RIA, or join another RIA. 
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Originally posted by apac707 apac707 wrote:

That's a no go, these three households are not a bargaining chip, they really believe in me. 

Although I know that task at hand is tough, I am not deterred and will prospect haard. Going to work my ass off, this is my job so Im gonna give it my all
This is not your job, this is your business owner. Think like a business owner, even though right now you dont have a business.

$1.5M in a wrap account charging 1.3% is $19,500 PCs/yr. 

I don't buy mutual funds, I allocate individual stocks/some etfs and bonds~ That's my differentiation. At the investment company I worked for before I was trained under the warren buffett style of investing, value investing. I do discounted cash flow analysis to determine the future stock price and do analysis on the fundamentals of the business, ect. ect. Master in finance~
Be careful here. How are you going to find the time to do discounted cash flow analysis on all of the individual stocks you are buying for clients, and monitor those stocks, and still have the MONSTROUS amount of time you will need, to sufficiently prospect and build your book. this statement, smells like sure failure (the bold)

I am building my prospect list and have about 250, will add more doctor offices. I will try to network with doctors as clients, and I sort of know many of them just plain don't know much about money. 
You will run into lots of people who don't know much about money, but think they know as much or more than you do. Unfortunately, they won't learn the truth by talking to you, they will only learn it by blowing themselves up 7 times. And if you try to tell them the truth (that they dont know much) you will need to choose your words very carefully, or you will insult them, and lose them as prospects. Always remember that this job is 40% psychologist/55% salesman/10% 5% investment manager. If you try to make it anything else, you will fail

Time will tell, but even if I fail, I will have learned so much and if need be, move over to morgan stanley, start my own RIA, or join another RIA. 


Edited by Sportsfreak - Oct/10/2014 at 7:24am
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Originally posted by Sportsfreak Sportsfreak wrote:

Originally posted by apac707 apac707 wrote:

That's a no go, these three households are not a bargaining chip, they really believe in me. 

Although I know that task at hand is tough, I am not deterred and will prospect haard. Going to work my ass off, this is my job so Im gonna give it my all
This is not your job, this is your business owner. Think like a business owner, even though right now you dont have a business.

When will you have the time with all of the analysis you are doing?

$1.5M in a wrap account charging 1.3% is $19,500 PCs/yr. 

I don't buy mutual funds, I allocate individual stocks/some etfs and bonds~ That's my differentiation. At the investment company I worked for before I was trained under the warren buffett style of investing, value investing. I do discounted cash flow analysis to determine the future stock price and do analysis on the fundamentals of the business, ect. ect. Master in finance~
Be careful here. How are you going to find the time to do discounted cash flow analysis on all of the individual stocks you are buying for clients, and monitor those stocks, and still have the MONSTROUS amount of time you will need, to sufficiently prospect and build your book. this statement, smells like sure failure (the bold)

This is really not differentiation.  Many people do this - they are called analysts.  As SF said, you will fail.  You will fail hard.  Trust me when I tell you that there is no way for you to do this effectively. 

I am building my prospect list and have about 250, will add more doctor offices. I will try to network with doctors as clients, and I sort of know many of them just plain don't know much about money. 
You will run into lots of people who don't know much about money, but think they know as much or more than you do. Unfortunately, they won't learn the truth by talking to you, they will only learn it by blowing themselves up 7 times. And if you try to tell them the truth (that they dont know much) you will need to choose your words very carefully, or you will insult them, and lose them as prospects. Always remember that this job is 40% psychologist/55% salesman/10% 5% investment manager. If you try to make it anything else, you will fail

If this is your target, I would target people who went to medical school later in life.  Look for 35 year old residents.  They will likely not be as arrogant as the younger docs.

Time will tell, but even if I fail, I will have learned so much and if need be, move over to morgan stanley, start my own RIA, or join another RIA. 


You really don't know what you don't know.  If you want to make it in this business.  Take a step back out of what you think you know.  Listen to old guys like SF (God help me, helado) and some of the other board members here who with ML.  And Iamlegend.  Dude doesn't work for ML, but knows how to build a business.
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Originally posted by apac707 apac707 wrote:

thanks for your honesty. Day 1 ill have $1.5 million in wrap accounts, 3 households. I really like ML's training program and I am learning how to listen to the clients needs and wants and ask powerful questions to make myself relevent as a FA to put an answer to their problems. 

If i fail, I fail...but I will learn how to prospect, service clients, wealth management, and so forth. ML is paying for my series 7, 66, and insurance so along with the training, I will be quite valuable to other investment firms out their if I do "fail out". 

What I am hoping to do is see if I can be placed into a bank of america branch. From what I hear, it's getting a constant stream of warm referrals at the bank. 

In Buffetology there is a metric called Mkt Cap to GDP ratio. Its high right now, really really high. Does that make this market attractive or unattractive for you? Just curious. If you need visuals,

http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Market-Cap-to-GDP.php

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You are at a crossroads where you need to decide if you are an analyst (a book/computer person) or a Financial Advisor (people person / recruiter / counselor / relationship manager).

You have a long way to go if you want to ply your trade as an analyst. But if it is who you are, then own it. Get the next job working in support of a fund manager (even if its making his coffee), hopefully somewhere that will sponsor you for your CFA.

If you are a people person, then you have to let go of the granular expertise you would otherwise develop in a non-existent universe where you are so unique that people are lining up to bring you their money and willing to fill out the paperwork with your intern because, god forbid, they don't want to distract you from your genius.

Letting go means finding someone who you trust to do the analyst's work. And trusting them enough to never question any decision they make until you have a self-sustaining book. That will allow you to spend, hopefully, less than 5% on analysis. Because you need every ounce of energy you can muster to gather assets.

And BTW, your ML team already has these decisions made for you.

There is absolutely no middle ground on this. If you hear this and are thinking, OK, I'll put in the time effort to get the assets so that EVENTUALLY I can do the analysis, then that means you are, in your heart, an analyst. Choose option #1, take your lumps and work your way up until the people-people are delegating their money-mangement to you, which, based on the differention you described above, no one is going to do right now. No offense.

FWIW, you sound like an analyst to me, one who if he's not careful, is about to let his ambition for making money faster (like people-people can do much easier) take himself down a very painful road.

That's all I've got. Good luck.

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I see no harm in investing a portion of the assets in dividend paying bluechip stocks, Im not saying all the assets should, I also invest in ETFs and diversified funds. Not mutual funds in a wrap account never, that is double charging.
I see from your perspective how you can see this as dangerous for a greenhorn or someone who is new to finance and investing, but I assure you that I have done the due dilligence and have personally owned these stocks for almost a decade. Can you tell me why it is a bad idea to own a small position in a high quality company such as johnson and johnson, chevron, boeing, or the other bluechip stocks that i recommend? Buy and hold forever...
 
Diversification doesn't diversify against systematic risk, just look at 2008. So my philosophy is cash flow over cap gains with a buy and hold mentality.
 
In this business, you know, it is all about learning from a more experienced person. This ideas are not actually something I made up, but training from a mentor who has been in the business for 20 years and a system that I learned. Investments, in my opinion, is all about mentor and student.
 
But I would never buy A shares and then put it in a wrap account and charge a wrap fee on top, that to me is ripping off the client and being greedy. That is what happened to my family accounts with another financial advisor so I am bringing them on to ML.
 
What are your thoughts?
 
 


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Um, when you buy A-shares in a wrap account they are load waived.  Genius.
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So youve never seen it done where the client gets double charged? Ive seen it done several times, and the mutual funds purchased below the break point, scattered in $10,000 pieces to get the max comission. Plus churning of the account to get more commission. Ive seen it done at some third tier shops, but never ML, we get a warning and need to explain why we would do that.  Some FA's are way too greedy, so I make it a point to explain that to a prospect when I see their statement~

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@apac707...Let this thread go lol. You know what you have to do to run your practice and just prepared enough to do it.  You are wasting your time trying to impress some of these guys and they will continue to grill every post you make because you are a newbie. ML is a tough program just be prepared to pay the price to succeed. Good luck to you!
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