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With planning down pat, RIAs learn their Ps and Qs

Added on May 2019 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Financial advisors confident they have every technical planning method down pat still see client service as an area of personal and professional growth.

Ask Yourself These 3 Questions When Evaluating Competing Offers to Buy Your Practice

Added on May 2019 in M&A Issues
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SummaryChoice can be a wonderful thing, but when a financial advisor is confronted with competing offers for his or her practice the decision is often fraught with complicated challenges. It can feel as though your professional legacy and financial well-being hangs in the balance.

Clearing, Custody Firms Now Tied With Wirehouses for Market Share: Aite

Added on May 2019 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: 2018 was a very mixed year for the wealth management industry. Client assets fell 2.1% overall to $23.7 trillion — the largest decline in over a decade — due to the drop in the stock market, but the drop-off was uneven and the number of advisors rose less than 1%, according to a new report from Aite Group.

Why is Your Firm Not Growing?

Added on May 2019 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: If we go by net new assets (and stripping out market growth), how much is your firm actually growing? If you look at most industry benchmarks, top RIAs are growing by more than 15%. If you are not growing by that amount, why not?

10 largest RIA aggregators focused on defined-contribution plans

Added on May 2019 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: We break down the data by firm, assets and advisers.

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