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Summary: We take our fiduciary responsibilities seriously, advising and planning in an effort to ensure that each of our clients will be well cared for financially. Yet when it comes to planning for our own legacy, far too many of us fail to conduct adequate planning around what is likely our single most valuable asset: our business.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
