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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.
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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.
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Summary: Most, if not all wealth managers have heard the expression, "This is a people business." It's true; the business of providing financial advice and wealth management solutions is about people, and personal relationships may be the only element of our business that cannot be commoditized.
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Summary: From the perspective of the end-client, the process of procuring financial products, from whole life insurance to liquid alts, is changing and the industry should be proactively changing with it. Investors as well as advisors should benefit.
Added on July 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: So far this year, merger and acquisition activity in the registered investment advisor space has hit record levels, and the average size of deals are bigger than ever, according to new data by DeVoe & Company.
