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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.
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.
Financial Advisor January 2008 Bruce W. Fraser	Growing Up Over the next five years, the typical RIA will undergo rapid transformation, and the average RIA firm is expected to at least triple in size. To accommodate such growth, hiring decisions will become critical, stretching far beyond the traditional tendency of firms to simply add more advisors.
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Registered Rep. September 1, 2006 Anne Field	Taking the Growth Plunge Even with the most sophisticated technology available, your financial advisory practice isn't going to grow significantly unless you start staffing up.
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.
Registered Rep. April 6, 2010 Kristen French	Custodians In Race To Roll Out M&A Tools TD Ameritrade Institutional is rolling out a new online business valuation tool.
Investment Advisor April 2006 Bob Clark	Clark at Large: Is Bigger Really Better? Before you rewrite your strategic plan based on Moss Adams's new research, think about why you became an independent advisor in the first place.
Investment Advisor May 2009 Kelli Cruz	Walk On The trend of wirehouse advisors joining the independent RIA channel has ramped up significantly in the last several years, and is only increasing in the wake of Wall Street's epic meltdown.
Registered Rep. August 18, 2011 Jerry Gleeson	Market Turmoil Could Slow Advisor M&A Two industry experts expect merger and acquisition activity involving registered investment advisors will drop this year if the current volatility in the stock market stretches into the coming months.
Investment Advisor July 2010 Lewis Schiff	Succession Planning: Buying and Selling Wealth Management Practices 2010 could be the biggest year ever for mergers and acquisitions in the financial advisory industry, but the players and strategies are different than they were prior to the market turndown.
Investment Advisor January 2010 James J. Green	Numerology: Bright Future for Advisor M&A Activity M&A activity among RIA firms is poised for resurgence, as a new market environment emerges and the pool of potential buyers undergoes dramatic change.
Financial Planning October 1, 2009 Donna Mitchell	The CEO Imperative To profit in a new growth environment, advisors may need to redefine themselves as executives as well as professionals.
Financial Planning May 1, 2012 Jim Grote	Mastering a Niche Mark Balasa of Balasa Dinverno Foltz says, "It's easy to get lost in Chicago. Our two niches - business owners and women - help us stand out. They function as a branding tool."
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Deborah Doyle McWhinney	Independents' Day As investment advisors become more popular and profitable, they must find new ways to keep ahead of the competition.
Financial Planning May 1, 2010 Bob Veres	A Profession Comes Of Age As the planning profession reaches maturity, motive and opportunity seem to be conspiring to create a better professional world.
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 Anne Field	Growing Pains Ever think of your financial advisory practice as your baby? Well, you should. For one thing, it needs an awful lot of care and attention. For another, you can expect it to go through a number of fairly predictable stages of growth.
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 David Grau	Linked In As they look to recreate themselves, surprisingly few small financial practice owners consider mergers.
Financial Advisor November 2008	Frontline News News for the Financial Industry: Tumult Could Expand Ranks Of RIAs... M&A Activity Remains Healthy... Independent B-Ds: Don't Tread On Us... Who Has The Most Satisfied Advisors?... The Business Of Serving Business Owners... etc.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2008 Anne Field	Hiring Good Help A panel of experts gives advice on hiring the right new employees to grow your firm.
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 Elizabeth O'Brien	Joining the Fray Those who can, do, the saying goes. Three Moss Adams consultants embraced this sentiment over the past year, leaving their prestigious perches at the Seattle-based firm to practice what they preached.
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Financial Advisor July 2012 Bernie Clark	The RIA Universe Advisors should look not just at their own internal business practices but also at the changes and trends occurring across the RIA field.
Registered Rep. April 15, 2010 Halah Touryalai	RIA M&A Deals Break Record in First Quarter Mergers and acquisitions seem to be crawling back to the top of RIA principals' to-do lists this year, as the first quarter's numbers show record activity. What is your practice worth?
Registered Rep. February 2, 2011 Diana Britton	RIA M&A Hits Record in 2010, More To Come In 2011 Registered investment advisory firms were furiously busy getting hitched last year: they did the highest number of merger and acquisition deals recorded in at least seven years.
Registered Rep. February 26, 2013 Megan Leonhardt	Let's Make A Deal The RIA M&A market is poised for growth, but not gaudy growth.
Registered Rep. July 8, 2015 Jerry Gleeson	No Slowing RIA Growth In the financial advisory industry there are potential regulatory burdens, fickle investors, and crafty competitors -- but nothing has changed the relentless march of the registered investment advisor space since the 2008 crash.
Financial Advisor April 2008 Evan Simonoff	The Big Chill While the financial advisor community and their clients have avoided most of the mortgage-related problems, advisory firms' merger and acquisition activity is suddenly becoming a victim of fixed-income market paralysis.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Christopher O'Leary	Going All the Way Across the country, registered rep employees of national broker/dealers daydream of chucking it all and going off on their own. But how far do you go? Which is the best model for keeping the most of what your business generates?
Investment Advisor August 2008 Bob Clark	Replacements Without a Clue Moss Adams LLP dropped a widely reported bombshell on the independent advisory community by announcing the firm is phasing out its practice management consulting. Who's going to fill the void?
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Financial Planning September 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien	Working Smarter The new Rydex benchmarking survey reveals the habits of highly successful advisors.
Investment Advisor October 2007 Mark Tibergien	Exit, Stage Left There comes that awful realization in every advisor's life when he finds himself in the netherworld between wisdom and obsolescence. As the leader of the business, how do you know when it's time to step aside?
Financial Advisor July 2006	The Golden Age of Growth As the RIA profession continues to grow and mature, it will be interesting to see if it retains its heterogeneous, inclusive character or evolves into a more homogenous business, as so many industries do over time.
Financial Advisor February 2007 Rebecca Pomering	Four Horsemen Who Missed Their Appointment Things were pretty good for the profession in 2006, but will financial advisors be hearing the hoof beats soon?
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.
Registered Rep. May 5, 2008	LPL Financial Heats Up The RIA World The largest independent broker/dealer in the U.S. announced today it's going to launch an RIA custodian later this year, which will serve both hybrid and fee-only investment advisors who operate independent RIAs.
Registered Rep. November 26, 2010 Charles Paikert	RIA M&A Deals On Track To Top 2009 Total The number of mergers and acquisitions completed in the registered investment advisor business through the third quarter of this year is near full-year totals for 2009, according to data from Schwab Advisor Services.
Investment Advisor October 2007 James J. Green	Mark Tibergien Named CEO of Pershing Advisor Group Tibergien, currently a principal and partner in charge of the securities niche at the accounting and consulting firm Moss Adams, will take on his new duties at the Bank of New York Mellon subsidiary on October 1.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Kristen French	The Best of Both Worlds Advisors say the broker/dealer-RIA hybrid model gives them freedom to choose what products, services and fees are best for their clients.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 Bressler & McDonnell	How CRM Helps Merge Firms' Crucial Relationship and Intelligence Assets A merger can be a shrewd business move if executed properly, with revenue growth as its primary objective. To achieve that objective, having the right infrastructure in place to aggregate, manage and share relationship intelligence is critical.
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Registered Rep. December 1, 2006 Anne Field	The Metamorphosis If you are ready to go out on your own as a registered investment advisor, you're likely to encounter a host of tricky problems and stumbling blocks. Here's a look at five of those problems and what you can do about them.
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