It’s Memorial Day once again, which means we’re well past tax season, and the busy spring season of industry conferences is coming to an end… and it’s time for the annual summer slowdown for most advisory firms, as clients begin to go on summer vacations and it’s harder to schedule them for meetings, and as advisors we have some time for ourselves to relax with family… and catch up on some good books.
As an avid reader myself, I’m always eager to hear suggestions from others of great books to read, whether it’s something new that’s just come out, or an “old classic” that I should go back and read (again or for the first time!). And so, in the spirit of sharing, a few years ago I launched my list of “Recommended (Book) Reading for Financial Advisors”, and it was so well received that in 2013 I also started sharing my annual “Summer Reading List” for financial advisors of the best books I’d read in the preceding year. It quickly became a perennial favorite on Nerd’s Eye View, and so I’ve updated it every year, with a new list of books in 2014, another in 2015, and a fresh round of recommended books for financial planners in 2016.
Continuing the annual series, I’m now excited to share my latest 2017 Summer Reading list for financial advisors, with suggestions on books about everything from how to minimize burnout and more fully (re-)engage with your advisory firm, and how the principles of computer algorithms can help you gain personal efficiency and better productivity in your daily life, to building an “enduring” advisory firm that lasts beyond its founder to the next generation of advisors (and how to serve the next generation of clients that will be necessary to perpetuate the firm), practice management books on everything about how to properly value and/or think about selling your firm and how to actually run your business like a business that is scaling up in size, to why humans will likely remain relevant (including and especially with the rise of computers and robots) and what it will take for financial planning to finally, truly become a profession in the 21st century.
So as we head into the summer season, I hope that you find this suggested summer reading list of books for financial planners to be helpful… and please do share your own suggestions in the comments at the end of the article about the best books you’ve read over the past year as well!
source https://www.kitces.com/blog/summer-reading-list-of-best-books-for-financial-advisors-2017-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=summer-reading-list-of-best-books-for-financial-advisors-2017-edition
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