From Financial Planning
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Summary: In the quest for success, the smart money has always gone to solid planning and forward-looking analysis.Consider politics: The presidential election is well over a year away, but candidates have been laying the groundwork for their campaigns for years, even decades.
From Think Advisor
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Summary:Ten years after it introduced its Advisor Services platform and one year after it completed distribution of a revamped version, Scottrade is holding a series of workshops around the country to help advisors adopt strategies and tactics to grow their businesses.
From Financial Advisor IQ
Added on July 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: In the course of trying to expand his business, advisor Derek Holman is reaching out to smaller competitors throughout the West. But after more than a year of negotiations with a handful of select practice owners, the managing director at EP Wealth Advisors in Torrance, Calif., reports he’s yet to find just the right fit.
From WealthManagement.com
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Summary: The indpendent advisory space is maturing. Many of the 1,000 registered investment advisors surveyed in Charles Schwab’s 2015 Benchmarking Study surpassed 20 years in business, and and reported all-time high revenue and profitability.
From IRIS
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Summary: For the past couple of decades, wealth management has been a pretty sleepy corner of the financial services industry. Not much has changed in the process of delivering financial advice over the years, despite the fact that there have been seismic shifts in technologies, demographics and consumer demands during that same time frame.
