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Smart behaviors that can improve your cybersecurity

From CNBC
Added on November 2017 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Some of the cybersecurity best practices for advisors are smart moves for consumers, too.

To survive and succeed, advisors will have to disrupt

From CNBC
Added on November 2017 in Thought Leadership
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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.

How to make an RIA attractive to buyers

From Financial Planning
Added on November 2017 in Plan for the Future
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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.

Schwab IMPACT: Hire Better!

From WealthManagement.com
Added on November 2017 in Manage Your Practice
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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.

How to make an RIA attractive to buyers

From Financial Planning
Added on November 2017 in M&A Issues
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Summary: CHICAGO - 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.

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