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Summary: I have spent countless hours over the last several years doing research on the brokerage industry. In fact, if you add up all the research my entire team has done we have invested over 7,000 hours. We have discovered a lot of interesting things about many different firms.
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Summary: Dan Heath, a senior fellow at Duke University’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship and co-author of “Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work,” gave attendees at IMCA’s annual conference on Monday four reasons their decisions and their clients’ fail.
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Summary: Countless books and movies have been written about the point at which computers shift from being our friend to becoming the enemy. For financial advisers, the battle lines are being drawn right now.Over the course of our careers, computers have helped elevate the services we provide to clients and have driven down costs.
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Summary: Advisers spend a lot of time thinking about their growth strategies. Two years ago, when InvestmentNews fielded the 2012 InvestmentNews/Moss Adams Financial Performance Study of Advisory Firms, we identified a subset of firms that were deemed “top performers." These firms were defined as the top quartile of participants across a range of metrics including revenue growth, cost control and profitability. The study found that the fastest-growing and most profitable firms sometimes take an unconventional approach to their business models.
Added on May 2014 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Should RIA founders sell to an outside buyer or to junior partners already in the firm? The internal vs. external sale debate proved to be one of the liveliest at the recent Deals and Deal Makers Summit in New York.
