Added on September 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Planners have to team up – and bring in an outside investor – to rapidly grow. For example: family office veteran Rick Flynn, who’s spent years serving ultrahigh-net-worth clients, just doubled the size of his new firm.
Added on September 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Market valuation can provide especially useful insights to business owners who anticipate selling their firm in the near future. Although buyers may differ on the factors they care most about, valuation can often explain why one firm gets a high offer and another is sold for a so-so price.
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Summary: Newly hired advisers can slowly climb the ranks at their firms by taking advantage of white-labeled robo-advisers.By using these online investment platforms, new advisers put themselves in front of a client base their bosses and older colleagues may not have, said Neesha Hathi, vice president of Advisor Services Technology Solutions at Schwab & Co.
Added on September 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Do the benefits of going public outweigh the disadvantages? Top financial advisory industry executives weighed in with forceful arguments for both sides of the issue at the keynote session of the annual Deals and Deal Makers Summit, “Demystifying the Financial Engineering of Deal Makers.”
Added on September 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: What are M&A deal makers on the hunt for advisory firms really looking for – and what kind of deals are they offering? Many of the industry’s top M&A executives attended the annual Deals and Deal Makers Summit, and Financial Planning sat down with three of them to get a report from the trenches.