Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

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 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.
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 David Grau	Linked In As they look to recreate themselves, surprisingly few small financial practice owners consider mergers.
Investment Advisor January 1, 2011 Mark Tibergien	The Day You Call It A Day The majority of advisors who wish to retire in three years are no more prepared for their exit from the business than those who plan to retire in 10 years.
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 Advisor December 2009 David J. Drucker	Solo Replacement Finally a (nearly) foolproof succession game plan for 85% of the profession.
Financial Advisor March 2012 David Lawrence	Consolidation Quickens Advisors are increasingly turning to others to increase service and decrease costs.
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 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?
Investment Advisor May 1, 2011 Mark Tibergien	The Constituency Conundrum How will your business decisions impact those who rely on you?
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 October 1, 2010 John J. Bowen, Jr.	Rocket Fuel Some advisors are finding that nonorganic options -- acquisitions, in particular -- are an excellent way to ramp up growth and build successful larger firms.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2007 Anne Field	Getting Hitched Here's why the merger may be the best way for a small financial advisory practice to achieve growth.
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 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.
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 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 2010 Michael Patrick Jacobs	Investors Demand More This advisor provides highlights of what he's found clients today are looking for when they seek advice.
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 October 2008 Angela Herbers	One Small (Big) Step The advisory industry has taken a giant leap forward in the past year. Attendees at this year's FPA NexGen conference clearly have made progress at getting small pieces of equity in their firms.
Investment Advisor June 2007 Mark Tibergien	Real Deals There's more activity than actual movement on the M&A front for financial advisory firms.
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.
Financial Planning February 1, 2005 John J. Bowen	Purchasing Power If you want to expand your financial advisory business by acquiring another firm, look before you leap.
Financial Advisor April 2005 Tibergien & Pomering	The Challenge Of Growth Most financial advisory firms are too big and yet too small. The profession is at an entrepreneurial crossroads.
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.
Financial Advisor May 2006 Rebecca Pomering	Selling To A Financial Or Strategic Buyer Here's what financial advisors need to consider before selling out to a bank, roll-up firm or other strategic or financial acquirer.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Mark Tibergien	The Bounty for Captain and Crew Does ownership of an advisory firm pay enough when rewards for employees are so high?
Investment Advisor June 2006 Tibergien & Littlechild	Consider the Clients If you are one of the many who is thinking about buying, or merging, your book of business or a substantive advisory firm, no doubt you have thought about risk. Hint: it's the firm's clients who determine its true value. So talk to them.
Registered Rep. February 25, 2013 Furey & Cooper	What Is Your Advisory Practice Really Worth? The perils of the valuation gap.
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 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.
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 Advisor November 2012 Joni Youngwirth	From Solo To Silo, From Ensemble To Enterprise Firms evolve for many reasons. What kind of firm is yours?
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.
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 Bob Veres	Managing Growth--Your Way Do you really have to get big to keep your practice thriving? Advisors who want the advantages of a large-scale firm -- without giving up their independence -- are creating new models for success.
Investment Advisor January 2006 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: The Right Practice Model With more than 25 different financial advisory practice models, it's hard to know which business you are in. To understand the limitations and opportunities that each model offers is to discover the key that will unlock the struggle with income growth, client service, and business development.
Financial Advisor June 2012 Karen DeMasters	Succession Survival Guide Advisors plan for their clients' futures but often ignore their own.
Investment Advisor November 18, 2010 Mark Tibergien	The Right to Vote Debate about how to grow an advisory business becomes especially fervent when firm ownership broadens beyond the founder. Should ownership include the right to vote on policies, procedures and people?
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.
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.
Financial Advisor February 2006 Grove & Prince	Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The top 1,200 U.S. financial advisors, who regularly earn more than $1 million on an annual basis, rely on characteristics and techniques that can be adopted and refined by a great number of advisors.
Financial Advisor July 2007 Robert Casey	Shifting Into High Gear Think your advisory firm did well last year? Maybe so. But if assets grew by less than 25%, you fell behind the average of independent registered investment advisors participating in the second annual Top RIA Survey.
Investment Advisor October 2007 Bob Clark	Difference of Opinion A debate about a major issue facing many advisory firms, namely, the conflicting interests they must wrestle with when deciding how to handle defecting advisors who leave the firm, taking clients with them.
Financial Advisor October 2008 Raymond Fazzi	Independent Power House Kochis Fitz and Quintile Wealth Management LLC complete a merger that, according to its principals, creates the third-largest independent wealth management firm in the nation and the largest in California.
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.
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 August 2008 Mark Tibergien	Where to From Here? As advisory firms grow, so too does the need for more structure in how they do business.
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.
Financial Advisor October 2004 Chaplin & Giachetti	Contingency Planning And Rule 206(4)-7 What must a financial advisor do to comply?
On Wall Street February 1, 2013 Mason Braswell	Connecting with Clients Could Lead to Opportunity Firms are partnering with their advisors to help mid-market business owner clients retire.