From WealthManagement.com
Added on November 2017 in M&A Issues
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Summary: For growing advisory firms, acquisitions are increasingly seen as a viable path forward; for advisors looking to exit the business, selling is seen as an easy way to monetize the business at the end of a career.
From CNBC
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Summary: Some of the cybersecurity best practices for advisors are smart moves for consumers, too.
From CNBC
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Summary: When it comes to the much-ballyhooed business of disruption, if you can't beat them, join them — and do a little disrupting of your own. That was the message to financial advisors unsettled by the rise of robo-advisors and other industry disruptors from speaker and writer Julie Littlechild, speaking at Charles Schwab's IMPACT 2017 confab in Chicago.
From Financial Planning
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Summary: Two advisory firms can have nearly identical revenue and assets under management. Yet if one structures its business in specific, strategic ways, it can command more than twice the valuation of a lifestyle-oriented practice — even if the other firm is larger.
From WealthManagement.com
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Summary: Defining the “culture” of an advisory firm is important, yes, but turning those vague impulses into what RIA compensation consultant Kelli Cruz calls a “core competency” requires not just hiring the right people, but also compensating them in ways that meet the firm’s needs as well as those of the employee. Not surprising, it’s where most principals of growing firms stumble.
