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How to let go: Best practices for succession planning

From Financial Planning
Added on August 2016 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: Handing over your life’s work is a process at once emotionally taxing and strategically complex. For advisers running their own RIAs, having a long-term succession plan in place is critical to safeguarding the continued success of both the firm and the clients they serve.

Transferable Business Value: Understanding The Role Of A Growth Strategy

From IRIS
Added on July 2016 in M&A Issues
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Summary: This is the type of value buyers look and pay for. Today we consider the multi-faceted growth plan that most businesses require if owners are to sell or transfer their companies for the amount of cash they need and want for their post-business lives.

Breakaway Advisor Movement, Version 2.0

From PFI Advisors
Added on July 2016 in Form an RIA
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Summary: There is always a dark side to success.  The RIA market has been booming for years, consistently taking assets away from the traditional bank/wirehouse community, and now manages nearly $3 trillion in assets.

Financial Advisor Practice Vs Business: What Are You Trying To Build?

From Nerd's Eye View
Added on July 2016 in Form an RIA
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Summary: The path of becoming a financial advisor is viewed as a very entrepreneurial one, starting from scratch and building a client base who pay you for services, growing over time into a business that can generate substantial income for the advisor/owner/founder. The growing trend of independent advisors, whether in RIA or broker-dealer form, just further emphasizes the entrepreneurial spirit of the financial advisor community, and their desire to build businesses of value… or at least, a practice that can generate substantial ongoing income throughout their working years.

Three Tips To Remain Relevant In The Robo Era

From WealthManagement.com
Added on July 2016 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: Over the past five years, robo advisors figured out something the rest of the wealth management industry did not – accessibility and convenience are paramount for investors. The business of being an advisor today is just as much about being a service provider as it is being an investment expert. 

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