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Summary: State securities regulators have advanced a model rule outlining policies investment advisers should have in place to respond to natural disasters or the death or incapacitation of an executive.
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Summary: We find top performing firms have a disciplined approach to strategic planning that includes investing in technology that allows them to innovate and evolve their client service delivery as well as a human capital plan that can succeed beyond the first generation of own.
Added on April 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Conventional wisdom is that startups are bought, not sold. The logic follows that no matter how much an entrepreneur wants to sell a company, there needs to be an eager buyer and no amount of seller desire can manufacture one. Some people interpret this wisdom to mean that they should spend no time getting to know buyers and when a large company is ready to buy their startup, they’ll come knocking.
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Summary: “Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it”, Nate Parker. This quote sums up the essence of having a niche focus for financial advisors. If you know your market, and you stick to your focused market and you talk to them, learn about them and serve their needs, you will be the first one associated with serving the market.
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Summary: Many advisors have built successful businesses by catering to the financial needs of baby boomers, but those clients are heading into retirement and switching their focus from accumulating assets to liquidating them. In order to keep their businesses vibrant, advisors need to prepare for what comes next and have a plan for replacing that lost revenue from managing that shrinking pool of assets.
