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How a Lack of Succession Planning Can Kill M&A Deals

From RIAIntel
Added on May 2023 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: Over the last four years, Hightower has completed more than 45 deals and built a team soley focused on acquisitions, including calling and researching RIAs. Oros said the firm evaluates succession plans as part of every transaction. A lack of succession planning has even killed a couple of the company’s potential deals.

RIA Edge Podcast: The Evolution of RIA M&A With Focus Financial's Rajini Kodialam

From Wealth Management
Added on May 2023 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Rajini Kodialam, Focus Financial's co-founder and chief operating officer, discusses the M&A opportunities that exist today for RIAs.

Employees are a key piece of the succession puzzle

From InvestmentNews
Added on April 2023 in Plan for the Future
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Subject: Back in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, my long-time business partner and I sold our Houston-based registered investment advisor, with $450 million in assets under management, to a national integrator for a combination of cash, equity, and the fact that we were able to bring virtually all our employees along with us to the acquiring firm.

How to Get Employees to Lead Themselves

From Wealth Management
Added on April 2023 in Manage Your Practice
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Subject: Reframe professional development review meetings to put the onus on the employee to hold themselves accountable.

 

RIA Aggregators Shift from Buyer to Seller

From Wealth Management
Added on April 2023 in M&A Issues
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Subject: The dynamics are shifting in the RIA M&A space, and recent events will likely spur a rise in small aggregators merging or selling to larger enterprises, argues NewEdge Advisors’ Alex Goss.

 

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