Mark Geremia, VP & general manager of Dragon.
A 2014 FPA report found that only 13% of 750 advisors surveyed felt in complete control of their time, and tellingly if not surprisingly, only 10% felt they were in complete control of their businesses.
In Investment Advisor's seventh annual broker-dealer Presidents Poll in May, the 44 presidents of independent BDs said the cost and scope of compliance and regulatory pressures was their top long-term concern. In the 2017 poll, 71% of the presidents cited compliance issues as their top concern.
Maybe those advisors and BD presidents should buy Dragon Professional, the speech recognition and dictation software designed for financial services professionals like advisors.
Why? Because Dragon gives advisors more control over their time—particularly when it comes to documenting recurring events, like client meetings. It can also help with compliance. It can be customized using voice macros to integrate with your CRM software of choice. Finally, because it is speech recognition and dictation software, the reports an advisor can create of client phone calls or in-person meetings is specific and comprehensive.
Mark Geremia, VP & general manager of the Dragon division of Nuance Communications (NUAN), said that instead of the "five bullet points" that an advisor might create after a client meeting using hand-written notes typed into a CRM system, the Dragon software creates "five paragraphs" documenting that client meeting.
So it doesn't just save time, but the reports created are also more detailed, describing not just the investment decisions made during a meeting, for example, but the context of the conversation between client and advisor that preceded the decision. In other words, a compliance lock box.
That context of the meeting also provides a running narrative of the relationship between the client and the advisor—giving the advisor the opportunity to review a detailed "story" of the last meeting and what she learned of the client's concerns and life events before the next meeting.
