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Summary: Over the years working with independent advisory firm owners, I’ve seen what works — and what doesn’t. One area where my experience has been particularly enlightening is succession planning.
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Summary: Over the past two years, the number of calls I have received about how to successfully transition ownership to an internal successor has dramatically increased. It's about time. Two-thirds of financial planning firms now are developing an internal successor and 45% have a working plan in place or have recently implemented their succession plan, according to this year’s FA Insight People and Pay study.
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Summary: When succession planning is on the horizon, how does the owner of a planning firm transfer the mantle of trust to their future successor? Financial advice, after all, is very personal. We know our clients' goals, financial successes and mistakes, family joys and upheavals — and sometimes even the dark skeletons in their closets. The relationship takes time to build and years of showing up when the client needs help.
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Summary: Financial advisors may have a significant prospecting opportunity with millennials, who are poised to inherit several trillion dollars from the baby boomer generation over the next 25 years.
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Summary: Sometimes a verbal agreement is all you need to get a succession plan rolling.That was the case in August 2008, when John Middleton walked away from a job as an institutional portfolio manager at Invesco to become a financial adviser at a $41 million RIA whose owner, Jim Chesterton, was 67 years old.
