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The Key Succession Issues for an Advisory Practice
Added on October 2013 in Plan for the Future
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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.
The Elements of a Successful Succession Plan
Added on September 2013 in Plan for the Future
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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.
Why Aren't More Advisors Succession Planning?
Added on March 2013 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: At Fidelity’s workshop, Realizing the Value in Your Firm, Fidelity takes a holistic approach to getting advisors to think about succession. They encourage the advisor to lift their gaze above their present practice and envision their life after their practice has transitioned. With a point on the horizon to head towards, Fidelity guides the advisors through the practice management steps towards succession planning.
Succession-planning program at Cambridge is bearing fruit
Added on March 2012 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: Representatives and financial advisers with Cambridge Investment Research are taking advantage of a succession-planning program that gives junior reps access to capital to buy into senior reps' practices while the broker-dealer, in return, gets a piece of the action. Called Continuity Partners Group LLC, the program was launched two years ago and has seen the number of practices joining the program double, with 46 offices now on board.
