From ThinkAdvisor
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Summary: While effective operations in each of these areas is essential to business success, they also can create considerable confusion for firm owners. This is particularly so when determining what to focus on when, and how to decide what needs to be done first.
From IRIS
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Summary: Google continues to collaborate with user-friendly websites to provide an engaging experience. This is where Google and web analytics converge. If your website shows a heavy bounce rate, this might indicate a need to improve your website. Web analytics will help you monitor your incoming traffic and if it declines, you may need to improve how you position your website.
From ThinkAdvisor
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Summary: Innovation is the key to success in a rapidly evolving financial services market. But with the rise of new products and delivery platforms, advisors face competition from low-cost robo-advisors and automated turnkey solutions. Advisors also are confronting a generational shift and, as baby boomers enter the drawdown phase, advisors must reach out to a new generation of clients with different needs and preferences.
From RIA Match
Added on April 2018 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Deciding whether and when to sell is a painfully poignant and often existential decision for many RIA principals. Join us on April 19 at 1pm ET as Tony Whitbeck, CEO of Key Management Group along with Todd Doherty, Director and M&A Coach at Key Management Group, share their perspective and explore 5 reasons to consider selling now.
From Nerd's Eye View
Added on April 2018 in Form an RIA
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Summary: The first thing to consider when contemplating an RIA custodial relationship, is whether a custodian is actually needed in the first place. For advisors who are simply going to charge financial planning fees, and bill clients with a third-party payment processing solution for those finanical planning fees, and while letting clients continue to be self-directed with their actual portfolios (or serve clients who simply don’t have portfolios to invest), then the advisor does need to become an RIA, but doesn’t necessarily need an RIA custodian.
