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How Elite Advisors Capture Additional AUM Nobody Else Knows Exists

The ‘Hidden Assets’ Conversation

Jan 26, 2026
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Your best clients are hiding money from you.

Not maliciously. Not even consciously. They simply don’t think to mention the $800,000 in their spouse’s old 401(k), the rental property they inherited three years ago, or the concentrated stock position from an employer they left in 2019.

Meanwhile, you’re out there grinding for new prospects when there’s a small fortune sitting in your existing book, assets your clients would happily consolidate if you knew how to surface them.

Elite wealth advisors have cracked this code. They’ve developed discovery techniques that consistently uncover held-away assets their competitors never learn exist. And the math is absurd: capturing just 15% more of your existing clients’ assets generates the same revenue as adding 30 new households.

This is the conversation most advisors are too uncomfortable to have.

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