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Investment Advisor
June 2007
Mark Tibergien |
Real Deals There's more activity than actual movement on the M&A front for financial advisory firms.   |
Financial Advisor
June 2006
Cort Smith |
Focused On Big Focus Financial has become one of the largest RIAs only months after it opened its doors. Founder Rudy Adolf says they're just getting started. |
Financial Advisor
February 2008
Jeff Schlegal |
Strategic Moves Mergers and acquisitions activity in the financial advisory industry has accelerated during the past three years, and United Capital Financial Advisers has done its share of deal making. A profile of the Newport Beach, California-based firm. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
A Match Made in Equity For financial-advisory practices, holding companies are making a come back after a flawed model forced them out of the market in the late 1990s. Now, new players have emerged and this time they're relying on private equity firms to help keep them in the game. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
June 2007
Bob Clark |
The Art of the Deal Advisors who don't understand where those astronomical practice values are coming from are doomed to get what they deserve. |
Financial Advisor
July 2010
Evan Simonoff |
Are Advisors Delusional? Fiduciary Network CEO Mark Hurley says they are because they believe their firms are very valuable -- but most aren't. |
Financial Advisor
April 2007
Evan Simonoff |
Mania In Bloom? A newfangled type of acquirer has entered the financial advisory market. So, how good and fair are these deals? It's obvious that the transactions can work well for the founders, but how about their successors? |
Financial Advisor
September 2009
Evan Simonoff |
The Acquired Advisor's Long, Hot Summer Tensions between advisors and consolidators are producing on-the-job retirements at some firms. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
April 2007
Bob Clark |
Walkin' the Walk Mark Hurley's new firm, Fiduciary Network, offers an alternative to advisory firms that don't want to be consolidated. |
Financial Advisor
November 2009 |
Frontline News Advisor News: Poll on advisor pay... Citi Embracing Fee-Only Model... RIAs Set Record For Repurchasing Their Firms... FINRA Expands Arbitration Pilot Program... SEC Expects To Examine 9% Of RIAs Annually... more... |
Investment Advisor
January 2007
Kathleen M. McBride |
When Selling Your Practice . . . Advisors are smart about many financial matters, but when it comes to selling their own firm, many are surprised about how much more there is to know. |
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.
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 Planning
September 1, 2009
Hamburger & Walter |
The Missing Piece Succession issues arise with every business, but they're more personal and are subject to more emotions in an entrepreneurial, closely held, professional services firm. |
Investment Advisor
October 2006
Bob Clark |
Swimming With The Sharks Read the fine print before selling your financial advisory firm to a strategic buyer. |
Registered Rep.
June 2, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
Compensation Survey 2015: The Slowly Disappearing Commission Moving from a commission-based business to one based on fees, advocates argue, removes conflicts and puts advisors on the same side of the table as their clients. |
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
March 1, 2011
Mark Tibergien |
Multiple Choice Options abound for creating liquidity and funding growth in your advisory business, but do your research before making the choice to sell your firm to a consolidator. |
Registered Rep.
August 25, 2008 |
What Is Your Practice Worth? Plenty--If You Are Fee-Based Considering selling all or part of your book? Buyers don't seem to care about a business model, they are only interested in the present and future revenue streams. |
Investment Advisor
August 2006
Mark Tibergien |
Formulas for Success: Get Help If you're buying or selling a financial advisory practice, call the pros. Experienced dealmakers know that the vast majority of the value in a transaction resides in the terms, not in the price. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2010
Bob Veres |
The Equity Problem A new report offers two kinds of advice: how to build enterprise value in your firm, and how to evaluate deal structures when you eventually decide to transfer ownership. |
Investment Advisor
September 2005
Mark Tibergien |
Formulas for Success: The Price of Everything... If you're not adding profit into what each financial advisory client costs, you're losing money. Advisors who use a combination of performance fees tied to assets and a retainer tied to more complex planning are able to consistently demonstrate their value. |
Financial Advisor
February 2009
Rebecca Pomering |
M&A In A New World The old assumptions about a firm's value have to be tossed out, and advisors must deal with new ones. |
Financial Advisor
March 2012
David Lawrence |
Consolidation Quickens Advisors are increasingly turning to others to increase service and decrease costs. |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
David DeVoe |
Succession Planning: Planning Your Future Tips for financial advisors on choosing a successor, valuation, informing clients, etc. |
Investment Advisor
May 2008
Mark Tibergien |
Time of Reckoning In volatile times, the reality of practice valuations is exposed. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2008
Stacy Schultz |
The Real Deal More than half of all registered independent advisory (RIA) firms bought or considered buying another advisory firm at least once in the past two years. |
Investment Advisor
December 2005
Bob Clark |
Why Bigger is Better This compensation and staffing study offers a preview of how financial advisory firms will be different five or 10 years from now. |
Investment Advisor
September 2005
Bob Clark |
Clark at Large: Can't Tell a Book... For all its flaws, Mark Hurley's new treatise, Back to the Future: The Continuing Evolution of the Advisory Business, offers advisors some valuable insights. |
Investment Advisor
December 2009
Mark Tibergien |
Formulas for Success: Prudent Man Rule for Practice Purchases Capital constraints, economic uncertainty, and increased levels of caution characterize the current marketplace in advisory firm M&A. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Should You Buy Blackstone? It's the first day of trading for Blackstone. Should you pile on? Take a deep breath, remove your finger from the "buy" button, and don't allow yourself to succumb to the hype. |
Investment Advisor
July 2008
James J. Green |
United We Grow United capital's Joe Duran on the state of advisory firms, and his strategy for acquiring financial advisory firms nationwide. |
Financial Advisor
May 2006
Tracey Longo |
What Have You Done For Me Lately? The race is on among independent broker-dealers to recruit more top fee-based advisors. |
Financial Advisor
June 2008
Tracey Longo |
Swimming Upstream California investment advisor John Threlkeld has been working diligently to serve wealthier and wealthier investors, even purchasing two other advisors' practices and turning all but his top clients over to a junior planner. |
Investment Advisor
February 2007
Mark Tibergien |
No Accounting For This Advisory firms affiliated with CPAs are outpacing their peers. |
Investment Advisor
October 2005
Mark Tibergien |
Formulas for Success: How Bleak is Your Future? Whether the latest Hurley/JPMorgan treatise on the financial advisory profession is right is hard to know, but their assumptions are compelling enough for advisors to take stock of their own situations. |
Investment Advisor
November 2007
Bob Clark |
Today's the Day A growing shortage of professional talent coupled with low retention rates and virtually non-existent partnership tracks is adversely impacting the independent advisory industry. |
Investment Advisor
March 2010
Mark Tibergien |
Formulas for Success: What's a Young Advisor to Do? There is evidence that young advisors feel stymied in their efforts to acquire interests in their firms. |
Investment Advisor
June 2006
Bob Clark |
Clark at Large: Reality Check A good exercise is to periodically examine the things we know to be true and explore why we think so. Here's a list of possible misconceptions financial advisors hold to be true: Client portfolios need international exposure... It doesn't matter what the other advisors do... etc. |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
James J. Green |
Numerology: Fewer Assets, More Advisors Total assets managed by investment advisors shrank in 2008 but the number of SEC-registered investment advisors increased. |
Financial Advisor
August 2009
Jeff Schlegel |
Still Optimistic Most advisors are satisfied with their growth, but intense workloads and lousy markets have caused dissatisfaction to rise. |
Investment Advisor
December 2009
Angela Herbers |
The Fast Track: Figures Don't Lie Finding the compensation benchmarks you need may take work. |
Investment Advisor
October 2010
Angela Herbers |
Show Yourself the Money Advisors need to learn to pay themselves first |
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. |
Registered Rep.
March 8, 2011
Diana Britton |
IBDs Dress Up Offerings For Hybrids Independent broker-dealers have lately been ramping up their efforts to attract hybrid advisors. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn |
Private Equity Gets Liquid Buyers and sellers both can benefit from an emerging market for seasoned interests in private deals. |
Financial Advisor
March 2012 |
Wirehouses Still King Of The Hill Despite headlines about breakaway brokers and the ascendency of the independent, fee-based advisory model, the Big Four wirehouses are still holding their own. |
Financial Advisor
February 2007
David J. Drucker |
The Retirement Dilemma Will your aging client base kill your financial advisory business? |
