From Financial Planning
Added on June 2014 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Planning industry elder statesman Harold Evensky and his team at Evensky & Katz have merged with a firm founded by a former client and employee to form a firm with $1.9 billion in assets under management.
From wealthmanagement.com
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Summary: When successful business owners reach a certain age, it becomes imperative that they address the issue of succession planning. Many of them may have been dodging this particular conversation for years, yet they often come to their advisors with seemingly ironclad convictions about how they’d like the succession to play out.
From Financial Advisor IQ
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Summary: More U.S. colleges and universities are offering degree programs in financial planning, CNBC.com reports. Yet even these new initiatives aren’t expected to go very far toward addressing the severe advisor shortfall many in the industry expect as boomer practitioners retire over the next 10 to 20 years.
From InvestmentNews
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Summary: Before I moved to FutureAdvisor, I was working for a registered investment adviser with $50 billion in assets under management, expanding their high-net-worth business globally. I received rigorous training, mentorship and great opportunities as the firm expanded. I had every expectation of a long and successful career there. So why leave?
From Financial Planning
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Summary: When new prospects comes into Chicago planning firm RMB Capital Management, a team is assigned right away to review family issues such as estate planning and life insurance.That's because generational wealth transfer issues are so critical for both clients and advisors, says CEO Richard Burridge, that advisors should begin such discussions early.
