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Summary: Judging by the amount of coverage succession planning has been getting in the trade press in the past couple of years, it is one of the most pressing problems facing the independent advisory industry today. It's certainly an issue for tens of thousands of baby-boom age owner-advisors who are quickly approaching retirement age—and for the younger advisors in their firms who are hoping to take control and bring those firms into the 21st century.
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Summary:It is a popular notion in the industry that only older advisors are and should be worried about succession planning. I beg to differ. Let me cite the example of a sole practitioner in Boston, MA I’ll call John Jones, who I recently spoke with after he submitted a Successions Readiness survey on our website.
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Summary: The challenge of succession planning is really about examining an independent advisor’s aspirations for his or her own legacy. Where past generations of independent advisors may have been content to treat their practices primarily as income-generating vehicles, more and more advisors today are waking up to the reality that they want much more than that.
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Summary: In the advisory business, a couple of events typically cause a rush of exhilaration: landing a big new client and hiring a great new talent. While the loss of a client can create the opposite emotion—dejection—the loss of a key colleague has a way of bursting one's balloon completely, especially when that individual played an important role in your succession plan.
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Summary: Starting and growing a business usually involves a fair amount of sweat and sacrifice. Yet many entrepreneurs who have spent years building successful businesses would rather have a root canal than undertake the often-painstaking process of succession planning.
