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Summary: The biggest reason why most wealth management firms have no viable succession plan is because of what it means personally for their owners. It’s a passage that marks the end of one phase of life and forces owners to recognize their own mortality. And who even wants to contemplate that?
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Summary: Clients need one. Your family needs one. Regulators increasingly want you to have one. Surprisingly advisors have always wanted one. Have you guessed it? Yes. A continuity/succession plan. What is perhaps more interesting is that advisors are finally ready to address it. This week we thought we’d share with you the types of conversations we are having with advisors all the time. If you have not addressed this issue, perhaps you can relate to one of these eight stories.
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Summary: The St. Louis-based Moneta Group knows a thing or two about creating a lasting business: The registered investment adviser started as an insurance agency in 1869. Still, when it realized four years ago that many of its top people would be retiring in the next decade, the firm intensified its focus on succession planning. The firm's chairman, Peter Schick, now 67, developed a succession plan for his advisory team, which centered on mentoring younger advisers and providing the resources necessary to become principals.
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Summary: Like many financial advisers in the Southeastern United States this week, Jennifer and Phil Calandra closed the doors to their Atlanta-based advisory firm on Wednesday and Thursday and operated from their home.The Storm provided a chance for many firm like theirs to live test their emergency preparations.
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Summary: Get your happy on. Generation X may be more prepared for retirement than you've been hearing.Then again, maybe not. Late in 2013, Wells Fargo released its annual Middle Class Retirement Study. Included in the findings was the news that "middle-class Americans in their 30s seem to have the most realistic overall outlook for retirement."
