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Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Kristen French	A Shopping Allowance: The Newest Recruiting Tool In the competition for top financial advisors, broker/dealers are offering forgivable loans to advisors who want to purchase other financial advisory practices.
Registered Rep. April 9, 2003 David A. Gaffen	Pretty Practice Prices If there's any evidence that financial advisors with smaller practices are leaving the business, FP Transitions has found it. According to the firm, the concentration of small practices (less than $300,000 in revenues) for sale has increased to 68 percent in 2002 from 42 percent in 2001.
Investment Advisor May 2008 Mark Tibergien	Time of Reckoning In volatile times, the reality of practice valuations is exposed.
Investment Advisor October 2005 Grau & Grable	The Wisdom of the Crowd Yes, buyers are paying more for financial advisory practices. But we can learn much from these wise buyers.
Investment Advisor February 2008 James J. Green	Lessons From a Banker Investment Advisor meets with investment banker Nimi Natan, who specializes in putting together deals for smaller business owners looking to sell or merge their businesses.
Registered Rep. July 24, 2014 David Grau Sr.	Charting Your Succession Course The author delineates the usual alternatives for selling an advisor practice.
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.
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Investment Advisor October 2006 Mark Tibergien	The ABCs of IOUs When selling to an insider, financial advisory practice owners have more options than they realize.
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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.
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Financial Advisor March 2005 David J. Drucker	When The Sum Of The Parts Is Greater Than the Whole Selling your financial advisory practice in pieces may benefit you---and your clients.
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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 May 2009 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: Coming of Age Independent financial advice is a unique field in the fact that workload tends to go up just when cash flow goes down.
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.
Investment Advisor June 2010 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: American Standard Comp tables based on surveys of advisory firms won't help you find the right salary range for your firm if those firms are over- or underpaying.
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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.
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