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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.
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Registered Rep. May 20, 2011 Diana Britton	Fee-Only FAs Positioned Well to Capture Retirement Plan Assets Fee-only financial advisors are well-positioned to capture retirement plan clients because of their fee transparency and their business model's alignment with ERISA.
Registered Rep. December 4, 2012 Gallant & Schneider	Are We There Yet? No, But FAs Can Help. In Search of Retirement Income Many advisors mistakenly believe that retirement income clients are a diminishing asset, not recognizing that these clients tend to consolidate investments and to be more loyal.
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.
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 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 May 1, 2011 Mark Tibergien	The Constituency Conundrum How will your business decisions impact those who rely on you?
Registered Rep. June 1, 2004 John Churchill	Keeping Family Businesses in the Family It's not news that mixing family and business can be messy, but advisors might be surprised to know the extent to which family-owned businesses need their services.
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?
Investment Advisor January 2010 Melanie Waddell	Retirement Planning: Retirement Income a Riddle Advisors are still searching for best method to deliver retirement income.
Financial Planning August 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad	Advisor Pulse If a new survey is to be believed, advisors who help their clients with retirement planning -- and that's most of you -- will soon face a difficult choice: Change the way you service clients or watch your profits shrink.
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.
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 Planning October 2, 2007 Jack W. Callahan	Embrace Change Advisors have to adapt their practices to accommodate retiring clients.
Investment Advisor January 2007 Ivanova & Kahler	The ABCs Of Retirees To meet the needs of retiree clients, financial advisors will need to beef up their knowledge not only of investment-related retirement issues, but also non-investment areas.
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 Advisor August 2007 Tracey Longo	What's Your Retirement Brand? Unless you're branding yourself a retirement income planning specialist and it's clear in clients' minds you're going to do retirement income planning for them, your client relationships honestly may be in peril.
On Wall Street September 1, 2008 Parisi & Leung	Are You Prepared for the Retirement Boom? Meeting the retirement and estate planning needs of the baby boomer generation represents today's greatest growth opportunity for financial advisors. But are advisors ready for it?
Financial Planning September 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien	Advisor Pulse Advisor, advise thyself! A recent survey finds that most advisors did not understand the market value of their business or have a succession plan.
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.
Investment Advisor March 2009 Melanie Waddell	Cover Story: Patience In the quest to generate retirement income for their clients, many advisors relied on their investing-for-accumulation roots, and therefore were not focused on retirement income planning.
Financial Advisor June 2012 Karen DeMasters	Succession Survival Guide Advisors plan for their clients' futures but often ignore their own.
Investment Advisor February 2009 Angela Herbers	Advisor, Heal Thyself Good advice to advisors these days is that they revise their own financial plans.
Investment Advisor May 2009 James J. Green	Numerology: No One Way Researchers have discerned a number of core themes regarding how advisors are conducting retirement income planning.
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 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 June 2009 Lewis Schiff	The Affluentialist: Best Practices for Retirement Planning According to an in depth survey of experienced advisors who devoted a significant portion of their practices to retirement planning, demands from clients are driving the evolution of retirement services.
Investment Advisor July 2010 David DeVoe	Succession Planning: Planning Your Future Tips for financial advisors on choosing a successor, valuation, informing clients, etc.
On Wall Street October 1, 2010	Letters Most people think that health care reform will solve many of the problems facing retirees and people about to retire. Nothing could be further from the truth. Financial advisors need to be prepared to talk about health care costs.
Registered Rep. July 21, 2006 Kristen French	Advisors Not Filling High-Net-Worth Retirement Needs, Survey Says Although few high-net-worth investors are prepared for the kind of retirement they expect, advisors continue to focus on wealth accumulation at the expense of long-term financial planning.
On Wall Street November 1, 2010 Gallant & Schneider	Navigating The Retirement Business The demand for retirement income support will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years as the aging of the baby boom generation is inevitable.
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.
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.
Investment Advisor January 2007 Savita Iyer	DC Advisor-Sponsor Matchmaker The relative lack of corporate advisors is a result of inertia on the part of plan sponsors; despite pronouncing themselves dissatisfied with their retirement plans, plan sponsors do not take the easy step of finding a new advisor.
Financial Advisor October 2, 2009	Advisor Emporium Products of interest to advisors: LPL Launches retirement plan program... MassMutual captures retirement sales... Morristown Financial Group is launching Advisor AdvantEDGE... SAM adds sustainable investments... EPH China fund is created... more...
Investment Advisor September 2009 Lewis Schiff	The Affluentialist: Building Retirement Portfolios Now Few advisors use a cookie cutter approach to retirement income support.
Registered Rep. October 28, 2015	JP Morgan: Helping Advisors Help Clients Understand Retirement It's clear that smart retirement planning is at least equally complex as investing, and has a far greater impact on a client's ultimate financial life.
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.
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.
Investment Advisor November 2009 Savita Iyer-Ahrestani	Hispanics Need Advice This fast-growing segment of U.S. population offers a great opportunity for advisors.
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?
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: Fiduciary Worries The Department of Labor is set to rule that brokers working with retirement accounts meet a fiduciary standard.
Investment Advisor June 2007 Kara P. Stapleton	Consolidate and Refer Fidelity Investments introduced a report showing that advisors who offer retirement income planning services have found that their clients are more satisfied, consolidate more assets with them, and provide more referrals for new business.
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Investment Advisor September 2006 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: Bust of Boom? Financial advisors need to adjust their practices as baby boomer clients age.
Investment Advisor September 2005 Greg Salsbury	Harvest Time As Americans live longer, advisors need to switch their emphasis from accumulating assets to making existing assets last.
Investment Advisor April 2006 Melanie Waddell	Catch Up How financial advisors can meet the challenge of keeping pace with their clients' retirement needs in a changing world.
Investment Advisor September 2005 Joni Youngwirth	Draw Up a Plan Financial planners work with retirees every day. But, due to the changing face of retirement, when it comes to planning their own retirements, they may be as befuddled as their clients.
On Wall Street July 1, 2009 Doug Dannemiller	Advisors Face Competition from Do-it-Yourselfers Advisors face growing competition from web-based retirement planning services catering to the do-it-yourself instincts of the baby boomers.