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Value-based fees

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4:26 pm
July 14, 2011


marc.lamontagne.7

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Dear Colleague,

There was an article in Registered Rep that mentioned something called "Value-based fees". Essentially you charge your regular fees for the work involved, but you also get a percentage of what ever you end up saving the client. Examples provided were things like doing a tax return or replacing an insurance policy.

 http://registeredrep.com/advis…..lows_0705/

They also made it sound like this was a common method of compensation, though I have never heard of anybody using it.

Have you ever used Value-based fees and in what context would you use it?

Marc

10:53 am
July 15, 2011


De Goey

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I guess the way I deal with this is to charge separately.  For instance, things like insurance pay unavoidable commissions and that is disclosed at the beginning.

 

In short, every client pays either a commission or a fee on everything they use, but never neither and never both simultaneously. 

 

To me, this is more a matter of itemized compartmentalization with disclsoure rather than "value added".  I personally think the idea of 'value added' is a bit nebulous.  I'd rather add the service into an all-encompassing price/ value propostion – accepting that some services will be de facto loss leaders.