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Advice Firms Find Residency Programs a Staffing Boon

From Financial Advisor IQ
Added on June 2014 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Taking their cue from the medical field, advisors are turning to residency programs to help bring new blood into an aging workforce. Instead of recruiting young professionals with a couple of years’ experience selling insurance or mutual funds, firms are hiring total rookies and giving them on-the-job training.

What's your acquisition strategy?

From InvestmentNews
Added on June 2014 in M&A Issues
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Summary: In wealth management, an increasing number of financial advisers need an exit strategy. The combination of an aging demographic and fewer entrants into the field creates both challenges and opportunities. Acquiring a new business could be the perfect way for younger advisers to catapult their business to the next level. 

Advisors need to leverage interns

From CNBC
Added on June 2014 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary:Practice-management literature directs financial advisors to leverage their time more effectively through the use of interns and/or the hiring of younger planners.However, it seldom provides advice on the process of finding the next generation of financial advisors. The challenge is always where to find good candidates, how to keep a talented young advisor busy with productive work, or why clients might be interested in a firm's hiring processes. 

RIAs and small B-Ds have advantages over bigger firms

From InvestmentNews
Added on June 2014 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: In the advice business, it's better to be David than Goliath in the current environment of regulatory and environmental uncertainty. Registered investment advisers and mid-size broker-dealers stand to benefit as new regulations, low interest rates and a slow-growth economy continue to drive layoffs and consolidation in the industry, said Brian Shea, president of investment services at BNY Mellon Corp.

Advisors on Teams Make More Money

From wealthmanagement.com
Added on June 2014 in Form an RIA
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Summary: Wealthmanagement.com's annual compensation survey found that one in three advisors work on a team, sharing clients and revenues, compared to the 47 percent of advisors going it alone. About 20 percent say they fall somewhere in the middle, working in a siloed practice but with other advisors, sharing resources and overhead but not clients or revenues. 

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