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Summary: Market forces — like shifting demographics, consumer demand and regulation — are making financial planning an imperative for firms across the wealth management industry. As a result, financial planning technology is quickly becoming the front line in the battle for client assets.
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Summary: Circle back to 2009: The financial crisis had barely passed, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president, and Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years for his multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Meanwhile, more than 24,000 financial advisors who changed firms that year worried that the days of outsized recruiting deals were going to be a thing of the past.
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Summary: If financial advisers agree social media is no longer an optional part of their business, it's time to start checking out some of the tools employed by the internet's "power users."
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Summary: The typical firm increased its client base nearly 8%, and median RIA revenue growth soared nearly 16%, the biggest percentage gain in seven years, according to TD Ameritrade Institutional's annual industry benchmarking study.
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Summary: I’ve been watching, with increasing dismay, the trend of non-financial planners taking over ownership of planning firms. We have private equity firms buying financial services firms, and financial services firms that are either going public or promising to as part of their rollup pitch to independent advisors. The distress became especially acute when Focus Financial Partners went public and raised just over $600 million from its new shareholders.
