Sales Week: Your guide to annual review meetings with clients

ARE YOU READY FOR ANNUAL REVIEW APPOINTMENTS?

Use these simple conversation starters to guide your discussions

As 2023 comes to a close and we begin looking toward 2024, it's the perfect time to check in with your clients for an annual review.

These six topics provide a great foundation for annual review conversations with your clients.

1. New goals — Does the client have any new goals for the future that could be achieved with adjustments to their current plans and portfolio? Get a feel for what they see on the horizon, and offer up recommendations to help them accomplish what they’re envisioning. 

2. Retirement strategy — Go over their retirement vehicles. Provide an overview of their performance  over the past year, and recommend changes or new options to help the client meet their goals.

3. Life changes — It’s no secret that life has its ups and downs. Has the client gotten married, been divorced or experienced health issues? All of these and more are potential reasons to fine-tune their financial strategies. 

4. Effects of market volatility and inflation — Talk through the impact market ups and downs may or may not have on the client’s financial strategies. For example, if they own EquiTrust fixed index annuities (FIAs), it’s worth a mention that FIAs help protect their principal.

5. Beneficiary updates — Any check-in with a client is a great opportunity to make sure the beneficiaries they have in place are still correct and current.

6. Overall income, assets and expenses — Take this opportunity to create or update an inventory of the client’s overall income, assets and expenses. This can help both you and your client assess their overall strategy.

Use this Income, Assets and Expenses Worksheet when working with your client.

Before your annual review wraps up, make a plan to check in with the client throughout 2024.

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Have questions about the importance of conducting an annual review with clients?
Call us at 866-598-3694.

866-598-3694 • [email protected]  • Agents.EquiTrust.com.

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