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Summary: Succession planning has moved to the top of the practice management priority list for tens of thousands of advisory firms. As the average age of founder/advisors creeps ever closer to traditional retirement age, the profession is asking itself a lot of hard questions about how to keep these businesses alive – and take care of clients – after the founder retires.
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Summary: The article reviews the important questions for succession and growth. Ask the right the questions of yourself and your potential partner or new hire. The right questions are as important as finding the right answers. Understand that people are not puzzle pieces and acknowledge that it is a relationship you seek to build. This will impact your approach. Thank you to Advisor Perspectives and Beverly Flaxington for inviting me as a guest columnist.
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Summary: “Fidelity...has introduced a program to help advisors create and formalize a succession plan.” These workshops include group and personal exercises as well as succession toolkits with worksheets and other resources to aid advisors in the creation and implementation of their succession plans.
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Summary: Scott Feraro, Founder of Pepin Consulting, poses 4 questions to consider as you begin to developing or assess your succession plan. A well-designed succession plan is critical to a firm’s continual success, but it’s hard to implement until it is completely finished. Succession planning includes developing and implementing the strategy, structure, processes and talent required to ensure the highest likelihood for the long-term sustainability of your business.
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Summary: Market Dominator RIAs offer their scale and systems, with varying degrees of autonomy, as a solution to smaller RIAs. Carson Institutional Advisors offers independent advisors a way to establish a succession solution. Ron Carson, of Carson Wealth Management and founder of Peak Advisor Alliance, expects to attract smaller firms and offer them the resources of a very large RIA.