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The Impact of Robo-Advice Will Be Widespread - Here's What You Need to Do

From Iris
Added on September 2015 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: A growing number of businesses are starting to focus on robo-advisers, who provide a simple process to typically match personal goals to a low cost portfolio. Whether you think they are good or bad, there’s probably little protection from their impact. In fact, wherever you sit in the financial service supply chain, a robo will probably be “visiting” you, your clients and prospects soon.

Planners Often Have to Team Up, Take Outside Money, to Grow

From Fimancial Planning
Added on September 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Planners have to team up – and bring in an outside investor – to rapidly grow. For example: family office veteran Rick Flynn, who’s spent years serving ultrahigh-net-worth clients, just doubled the size of his new firm.

4 Takeaways for Understanding Your Firm's Valuation

From Financial Planning
Added on September 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Market valuation can provide especially useful insights to business owners who anticipate selling their firm in the near future. Although buyers may differ on the factors they care most about, valuation can often explain why one firm gets a high offer and another is sold for a so-so price.

Robo savvy may be the key to newly hired advisers' success Charles

From InvestmentNews
Added on September 2015 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Newly hired advisers can slowly climb the ranks at their firms by taking advantage of white-labeled robo-advisers.By using these online investment platforms, new advisers put themselves in front of a client base their bosses and older colleagues may not have, said Neesha Hathi, vice president of Advisor Services Technology Solutions at Schwab & Co.

 

Executives Debate: Should RIAs Go Public?

From Financial Planning
Added on September 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary:  Do the benefits of going public outweigh the disadvantages? Top financial advisory industry executives weighed in with forceful arguments for both sides of the issue at the keynote session of the annual Deals and Deal Makers Summit, “Demystifying the Financial Engineering of Deal Makers.”

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