Added on September 2017 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Increasing sophistication around independent RIA support was vital to the merger this past week of breakaway wealth shop Syntal Wealth Partners and a prominent Merrill Lynch team in Dallas. But friendship and complementary skill sets – forged over more than a decade – were the real catalysts, say those who made the deal.
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Summary: Too often advisors do not try to get positive publicity. Often, it’s because they think it’s too hard to get PR on their own—that success requires hiring an expensive agency.
Added on September 2017 in Form an RIA
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Summary: New financial advisers are finding strange discrepancies between states in terms of the way regulators are allowing them to charge their clients fees for services.
Added on August 2017 in Form an RIA
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Summary: New RIA registrations each year have more than doubled since the start of the millennium, according to an exclusive Financial Planning review of state notice filings. The same period has also seen explosive growth in RIAs’ state registrations, a sign that RIAs are expanding their national footprint.
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Summary: I invite you to review your firm’s website through the eyes of that next client you would like to attract. Ask yourself, “Is the focus on us, or on the person with whom I want to engage?” Too often when I evaluate financial advisors’ websites, the story is all “About Us” right from the first word. You can forget about the S&P 500 charts, market summaries, calculators, and weather forecasts (really?!), too..
