Added on November 2017 in Join an RIA
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Summary: When LPL announced their purchase of four National Planning Holdings firms, it wasn’t just another day at the office for advisors in the independent broker/dealer space. “I feel like I’m riding a wave of disruptive uncertainty,” one IBD advisor said to me. “Are we next?”
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Summary: It may seem odd that financial professionals who help clients plan for retirement rarely do a good job planning for retirement themselves. Beyond the cliché that a shoemaker's children often go barefoot, it highlights the fact that most successful plan advisers have little experience building and running a business.
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Summary: Recent high-profile cyberattacks underscore the importance of tracking how and where client data is used, transferred and stored by third party vendors to RIAs. The reality is, "the cloud" is not – and never was – a cybersecurity solution.
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Summary: Alan Moore started his career as a financial advisor working under the traditional, face-to-face model, but he always felt tied down with that conventional structure. He wanted to have more time with people he cared about, freedom to go where his passions might take him, and most importantly, more time to hit the slopes!
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Summary: According to a recent InvestmentNews article, “RIAs Must Confront the Emotional Side of Letting Go of Their Business,” of the 118,000 financial advisers planning to exit the business in the next 10 years, about 61 percent have some plan in place—whether it’s succession, sale, or client reassignment.
