Added on October 2013 in Join an RIA
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Summary: The effort to groom more financial advisers at colleges, instead of relying on retail brokerages' training programs, has won support from the deep-pocketed companies that serve as custodians for registered investment advisers.
Added on October 2013 in Join an RIA
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Summary: A presentation by Cerulli Associates’ Tyler Cloherty and Patrick Newcomb at the FSI One Voice Conference in San Diego focused on trends impacting the IBD space, specifically recruitment and market share, both of which IBDs are losing.
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Summary: Rebecca Pomering, chief executive of Moss Adams Wealth Advisors LLC, helped somewhere between dozens and hundreds of advisory firms develop succession plans during her 11 years as a management consultant for Moss Adams LLP. Now she heads up the firm's strategic-planning and growth objectives. Her firm doesn't have a succession plan document, but its six partners all have identified successors whom they continually train and develop, Ms. Pomering said.
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Summary: Business-planning challenges such as succession planning, gaining scale and maintaining growth may not be acute today; however, if advisors choose not to plan for their future, they may fall into the land of unintended consequences, including degradation of firm value, limited growth, an aging client base and limited choices/control about the future of their business.
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Summary: Much has been written lately about the aging of individuals who own RIA firms and the lack of succession planning that has been done by this group. Now sensitive to the problem, we are not only realizing how important the solution is for the future success of the firm, but also how difficult it can be not just for large firms like our own, but even more so for smaller firms with fewer options.
