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Investment Advisor July 1, 2011 John Sullivan	Finding Success in Succession Planning Whether you're affiliated with a broker-dealer or completely independent as an RIA, proper succession planning helps you realize value long before you walk out the door.
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 David Grau	Worthy Successors In the financial services industry, the general term "succession planning" describes any number of plans to deal with an owner's departure from the business.
Financial Advisor September 2006 Kristofor R. Behn	Seller Beware Is selling a financial planning practice to an outsider the best way to extract its true value?
Registered Rep. December 16, 2013 Mindy Diamond	Coming Together One way for advisors to be prepared in the event of something going wrong is to team with other advisors.
Investment Advisor July 2010 Robert F. Keane	Succession Planning: You've Got To Have A Plan Case studies of five advisors who have made succession planning a priority.
Registered Rep. July 24, 2014 David Grau Sr.	Charting Your Succession Course The author delineates the usual alternatives for selling an advisor practice.
Financial Advisor October 2010 David Lawrence	A View From Both Sides To successfully retire, financial advisors have to carefully plan and develop a clear direction before taking action.
Financial Advisor March 2005 David L. Lawrence	Merging Options Five steps may help you avoid pitfalls and make your financial advisory practice merger a success.
Financial Planning November 1, 2007 David Grau	Protecting Equity As independent advisors move to evaluate, build and realize the equity in their growing practices, one holdover succession practice threatens to undermine their progress.
Investment Advisor July 2010 Olivia Mellan	Succession Planning: Pass It Forward The angel is in the details when it comes to the tricky business and interpersonal issues of succession planning.
Financial Planning June 1, 2010 Daniel Seivert	Transfer of Power Fewer than 10% of practice owners have developed formal succession plans. Isn't it time you put one in place?
Investment Advisor July 2010 David DeVoe	Succession Planning: Planning Your Future Tips for financial advisors on choosing a successor, valuation, informing clients, etc.
Financial Advisor June 2012 Karen DeMasters	Succession Survival Guide Advisors plan for their clients' futures but often ignore their own.
Registered Rep. September 26, 2014 Mindy Diamond	Take the Sunset Package or Sell the Business? For employee advisors, exploring your firm's sunset program might be a sound way to face retirement.
Registered Rep. October 30, 2014 Philip Palaveev	To Ensemble or Not To Ensemble Thousands of advisors are negotiating the combination of their practices with others in order to create scale, leverage each other's skills, gain resources, and tackle succession.
Registered Rep. June 18, 2014 Matt Oechsli	Building a Multigenerational Wealth Management Team The most common exit strategy for a veteran advisor getting ready to retire is to sell his or her book according to the guidelines established either by their firm or industry valuations standards.
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Roger Verboon	Succession Planning: Moving on Advisors excel at helping clients plan for the different stages of their lives. But when it comes to planning for stages of their own business lives-particularly the last one-many fail to take their own advice.
Financial Advisor November 2012 Joni Youngwirth	From Solo To Silo, From Ensemble To Enterprise Firms evolve for many reasons. What kind of firm is yours?
Financial Planning January 5, 2008 Mark Penske	Land of Uncertainty Although it can seem like an impossible task to find the right successor for your financial advisory business, stories and experiences from those who have crossed this line confirm that there is life after the big decision, both short and long term.
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 Stephanie Bogan	The Boss Can't Let Go Why your senior advisor is dragging his feet about turning over the reins of the financial advisory firm -- and what you can do about it.
Investment Advisor March 2006 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: Preparing for the Fall Are you succeeding at succession? This question increasingly comes up as advisors see each month flip away, and each year change a digit. In the autumn of your career, are you prepared for the inevitable?
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 David Grau	Internal Affairs For the small financial planning practitioner, selling to an employee is a daunting challenge that most owners never understand -- until it's too late.
Financial Advisor November 2011 Joni Youngwirth	Outside The Box The pros and cons of choosing an external successor.
Financial Planning July 1, 2013 Scott Wenger	FPA's Michael Branham: Succession on His Mind The FPA s president says advisors of all ages should be thinking about the next chapter of their careers.
Financial Planning July 1, 2005 David Grau	The Right Exit Option Should you sell your financial planning practice to an internal or an external buyer? Each strategy has its advantages.
Investment Advisor September 2010 Mark Tibergien	Formulas For Success: Soul Mates, or Marriage of Convenience? When considering an advisory firm merger, get to know your potential partner.
Investment Advisor March 2009	The Shoeless Cobbler There are many common issues, both personal and professional, that are keeping today's advisors from properly preparing for their own retirement and succession planning.
Financial Planning April 1, 2010 Deena Katz	Set Up for Succession Succession planning is not just a personal transition; it is very much a practice transition as well. The success of the person you select to follow you depends upon how well you have prepared to hand off your practice management functions.
On Wall Street April 1, 2012 Denise Federer	Are You A Succession Saboteur? Adjust your plan as necessary so that you can fulfill your commitment to securing not only your future, but the future of the people that you care about: your clients, your team and your family.
Registered Rep. June 5, 2012 Mindy Diamond	The Road Less Traveled An unusual story about a financial advisor who left an independent b/d to join a Wall Street firm.
Registered Rep. March 30, 2011 Matt Matrisian	Bridging the Succession-Planning Gap Too many advisors need help planning their financial futures. Today, only about 18 percent of independent advisors have a well-defined business succession plan that is ready to implement.
Investment Advisor November 2007 Mark Tibergien	Heirs and Omissions In planning for succession, think of your financial advising practice as a family business. If parents and children can manage through the natural conflicts, most practices have a great opportunity to last through another generation.
Financial Advisor October 2010 Mary Rowland	Quietly Contrary Some advisors find success by scorning conventional wisdom about size, growth and clientele.
On Wall Street October 1, 2011 Todd Colbeck	Five Steps to a Smart Succession Plan As sure as the fact that today you are a financial advisor, some day you will leave the business. And the wisest course of action is to prepare for a succession plan years before you leave your practice.
Investment Advisor September 2010 DePardo & Inveen	People and Pay: Use the Lebron Rule of Retention An aggressive and proactive talent retention strategy is key to winning performance.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2005 John Churchill	Nothing Succeeds Like Succession Whatever type of succession plan you create, you're really creating a growth plan, providing for continuity of the business and for clients. Advisors need to see it that way, instead of an end or an exit.
Registered Rep. July 30, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	Failing at Succession? Cerulli Associates estimates that nearly 60 percent of advisors who are within five years of retiring expect to sell their business to an unidentified buyer. Five years is not enough time.
Investment Advisor May 1, 2011 Mark Tibergien	The Constituency Conundrum How will your business decisions impact those who rely on you?
Investment Advisor March 2009 Kara P. Stapleton	Succession & Valuation A Financial Services Institute OneVoice Broker/Dealer session dealt with internal succession, discussing the steps that advisors and independent broker/dealers need to take when developing a succession plan.
Financial Advisor October 2011	Frontline News Independent Advisors On The Rise... Uncertain Times For BofA Advisors... Gen Y Good Target For Advisors... etc.
Financial Advisor July 2012 Jim McConville	New Firm Makes Value Judgments Started in January, Fort Collins, Colo.-based Eighty20 Advisors LLC specializes in helping companies -- including small financial advisor firms -- receive their optimum value for either a succession or an outright sale to another company.
Financial Advisor October 2004 Chaplin & Giachetti	Contingency Planning And Rule 206(4)-7 What must a financial advisor do to comply?
Financial Advisor March 2012 David Lawrence	Consolidation Quickens Advisors are increasingly turning to others to increase service and decrease costs.
Financial Advisor August 2006 David J. Drucker	Do You Need This Kind Of Manager? Financial advisors discuss whether a client relationship manager is someone they need -- or not.
On Wall Street August 1, 2009 Denise Federer	Succession Planning: The First Step in Preserving Your Legacy Do you have a formal plan to prepare your successor and ensure the continuity of your financial practice? Or are you one of the 65% of business owners who haven't planned that far ahead?
On Wall Street September 1, 2013 Danny Sarch	The Coming Retirement Storm The demographics mean your book is worth a lot right now. But the tides are about to turn. You need to create a succession plan just like the one you encourage your business-owning clients to create.
Financial Planning September 1, 2010 Daniel Seivert	The Nominees Are... It is common for executives of wealth management firms who are in the process of developing succession plans to become bogged down by all of the considerations that go into selecting a potential successor.
Investment Advisor December 2006 Charles Goldman	Do It Now; Do It Right It's important for financial advisors to look ahead and ask the question: How do you plan to exit the business? If you're not sure, it's time to consider your options -- sell externally or internally -- and create a business transition plan that spells out the future of your firm.