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Ask Yourself These 3 Questions When Evaluating Competing Offers to Buy Your Practice

From WealthManagement.com
Added on May 2019 in M&A Issues
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SummaryChoice can be a wonderful thing, but when a financial advisor is confronted with competing offers for his or her practice the decision is often fraught with complicated challenges. It can feel as though your professional legacy and financial well-being hangs in the balance.

Innovation will set apart the acquirer from the acquiree: Q&A with In|Vest speaker, Silver Lane Advisors' Liz Nesvold

From Financial Planning
Added on May 2019 in M&A Issues
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Summary: It’s a difficult question because honestly there are advisors today who aren’t taking advantage of the tools that are available to scale their businesses. Far too many advisors haven’t reinvested in technology and continue to rely on legacy systems. The RIA community started to evolve in the ‘70s and ‘80s, so it’s an aging community. And the older advisors are less comfortable embracing the latest and greatest.

How Mariner keeps up its furious buying pace

From Financial Planning
Added on April 2019 in M&A Issues
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Summary: The Overland Park, Kansas-based RIA has made its sixth purchase of the year buying Singer Xenos Schechter Sosler, an advisory firm in Coral Gables, Florida with more than $1.3 billion in assets under management. And Mariner CEO Marty Bicknell says he’s not done yet, as he hopes to complete approximately six more transactions by the end of the year.

Consider diversity when it comes to mergers and acquisitions

From InvestmentNews
Added on April 2019 in M&A Issues
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Summary: As society becomes more diverse, it's time for a broader swath of the independent financial advice industry to reflect the country's changing demographics. Simply put, we need more women, young people and ethnocultural minority advisers and support staff.

ICYMI: My Story - March 19

From RIA Match
Added on March 2019 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Are you looking to add an experienced CFP? Someone who is as comfortable generating new business as creating plans in eMoney?  I have 8+ years of solid RIA experience, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a growing client base on monthly retainer ready to bring with me. I started my RIA 3 years ago and I am looking to grow faster by merging into a larger firm seeking growth.  ​

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