For many monetary advisors, 2023 was a yr of rebound and reinvestment, as markets bounced again from the turbulence of 2022, and expanded revenue margins allowed advisory corporations room to reinvest again into the providers and worth they’re offering shoppers to verify their retention stays sturdy sooner or later. Right here at Kitces.com, we have equally been within the midst of a reinvestment course of in 2023, setting the muse in order that we can provide much more again to the Monetary Advicer group, as we proceed to increase our “Group of Nerds” past simply myself with extra writers and extra audio system, and develop and refine our Q-N-R requirements to make sure that all the pieces you get from Kitces.com is High quality, Nerdy, and Related… an ordinary for all Kitces content material, even when it is not created by Michael.
And within the coming yr, we’ll make it possible for much more of that Kitces content material is eligible for not solely the complete vary of CE credit score for CFP, CPA, and the opposite numerous skilled designations, but additionally the ever-expanding IAR CE obligation. Which, because of the brand new rollouts in each California and Florida in 2024, will imply practically half of all monetary advisors who’re IARs might want to fulfill the brand new IAR CE requirement in 2024… as as soon as an advicer has half a dozen shoppers in any of the 17 states or the District of Columbia, they need to adjust to the brand new IAR CE guidelines. And a lot of advicers have greater than 5 shoppers in Florida!
In follow, because of this we’ll be bringing again our fashionable IAR Ethics CE Day in 2024 (save the date for August twenty ninth!), increasing IAR CE credit to use to our month-to-month dwell webinars (along with our written weblog content material and recorded webinars), growing the cadence of our webinars from month-to-month to providing 2 each month (on the first and third Tuesday of every month… with the recording nonetheless obtainable for many who cannot attend dwell), and persevering with to cross-apply our Kitces content material for all the opposite forms of CE you could want as properly (so you may test all of the bins directly!). Although we’re implementing a small $20/yr improve (from $169 to $189 per yr) within the value of the Members Part to assist handle the price of rising employees salaries within the midst of inflation over the previous 2 years, and to additional reinvest into our Platform crew to make website enhancements so our content material is quicker to load and simpler to navigate.
Within the meantime, we stay dedicated to delivering the continuing cadence of content material that you’ve got grow to be accustomed to from Kitces. In 2024 we’ll once more function our Advertising and marketing Summit (save the date for April twenty fifth!) and our Monetary Planning Worth Summit, we’ll be rolling out 2 new Advicer Analysis research (on Advertising and marketing and on Productiveness, as we wrap up the 2023 research on Wellbeing within the coming weeks), and we’ll be constructing a brand new Kitces Course on Optimizing Roth Conversions (to enhance our course on Optimizing Social Safety) to be launched in mid-2024.
In the event you (or anybody you understand) desires to affix our Group of Nerds, keep tuned for extra openings in 2024 as properly, as we anticipate hiring a brand new Affiliate Monetary Planning Nerd, an Operations Affiliate, a brand new Director of Product and Platform, and a Director of Advisor Analysis. We’ll be itemizing these as they grow to be obtainable on our Kitces Profession Alternatives web page, or you may join our separate Profession Alternatives mailing listing (by way of that Alternatives web page) to be notified when new positions open up!
In the end, although, the main target stays the identical because it at all times has been – on our mission to “Make Monetary Advicers Higher, and Extra Profitable” – by means of our 4 strategic pillars of making Navigational sources, insightful Schooling, unique Analysis, and abilities Improvement for monetary advisors (and sure, our organizational technique actually does spell out N-E-R-D 😊). I hope you may proceed to come back together with us on the journey in 2024!
