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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
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. |
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 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. |
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? |
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
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. |
Financial Advisor
July 2005
Simonoff & Longo |
Merger Mania The price of financial advisory firms is about to go up -- big time. At virtually every level, size and scale of the business, an owner can find many prospective buyers for their firm, practice or book of business. |
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
August 2007
Jeff Schlegel |
Private-Equity Payout The private-equity tsunami that's sweeping the investing world isn't exactly inundating the financial advisory industry, but it is making waves. |
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 Advisor
August 2005
Evan Simonoff |
The Advisory Profession Revisited A new study paints a bleak future for small financial advisory firms, while arguing that the larger the firm the greater its number of strategic options over the next decade. |
Financial Advisor
May 2008
Rebecca Pomering |
Adding New Owners Internal transition is the desired growth plan and succession plan for the vast majority of advisors and good planning, strategic thinking and thoughtful implementation will allow many to enact a transaction that ensures the desired outcomes for their staff, their clients and themselves. |
Financial Advisor
June 2011
Evan Simonoff |
RIA M&A Game Changes A rebound in revenues and assets has not translated into higher valuations for RIA firms or an increase in M&A activity. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
September 21, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Desperately Seeking Financing For most advisors looking to grow through acquisition, the thorniest issue is finding the cash to do so. |
Financial Advisor
October 2008 |
Frontline News News: Wall Street Meltdown Could Swell RIA Ranks... Citigroup Defection Illustrates Talent Flight To RIAs... Merger Creates $1 Billion Fee-Only RIA Firm... Boosting Retirement Savings Longevity... Is The Commodities Party Over?... Hometown Investing Can Spoil A Portfolio... |
Financial Advisor
November 2008
Gail Liberman |
War Breaks Out For Wirehouse Brokers The economic crisis on Wall Street, among many other things, is causing wirehouse brokers to reconsider the value proposition offered by the giant financial service firms. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2008
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Set Me Free LPL Financial staked a bigger claim on the independent advisor market last month with the announcement that the broker-dealer will allow its advisors to do business under their own RIA. |
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. |
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
July 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
Build Your Value In a new report, "Creating, Measuring and Unlocking Enterprise Value in a Wealth Manager," released on June 14, the Fiduciary Network gives advisors a wake-up call about their real prospects for a payoff after years of working on 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
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
July 2010
David DeVoe |
Succession Planning: Planning Your Future Tips for financial advisors on choosing a successor, valuation, informing clients, etc. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
November 2011
Evan Simonoff |
M&A Game Changer Leading custodians in the RIA space are offering acquisition financing to firms that do business with them. |
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? |
Investment Advisor
October 2006
Bob Clark |
Swimming With The Sharks Read the fine print before selling your financial advisory firm to a strategic buyer. |
Financial Advisor
November 2010
Evan Simonoff |
Inside Oxford How Jeff Thomasson built Oxford Financial Group into a powerhouse. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2010
Stephanie Bogan |
Building Value It seems clear that anticipated growth from baby boomers, an aging advisor population, and increasing interest in mergers and acquisitions will likely make building and realizing value the defining practice managment issue of the next decade. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Hybrid's New Groove Registered investment advisor firms looking for ways to expand their businesses might try turning to broker-dealers for a boost. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2010
Elizabeth Wine |
To Market, to Market Observers and participants say the M&A market is just starting to recover from the economic disaster of the last two years, but there's a big price disconnect. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Citi's Covert Makeover It's a major shift in business for an entire unit to leap in the fee-only RIA world. |
Financial Advisor
September 2012 |
RIA Acquisitions Poised To Accelerate A growing number of large RIAs are preparing their firms for sale, and more than a few are retaining investment bankers to draw up the required financial documents any acquirer would demand, according to Schwab Advisory Services. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
September 2008 |
Frontline News News of interest to the financial services industry: M&A Talks Hit Many Roadblocks... Ameriprise Buys H&R Block's Advisor Business... Morningstar Buys Developer Of dbCAMS+... Securities America To Buy Brecek & Young... etc. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2013
Ann Marsh |
FP50: Big IBDs Hit a Speed Bump Is the boom over? After years of double-digit growth, independent broker-dealers hit a rough patch in 2012. We report from the front lines of the FP50. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2012
Ann Marsh |
The Largest RIAs Race to Scale RIAs work to address their top challenges: boosting their efficiency, customizing their technology and differentiating themselves from the competition. |
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? |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2010
Stephanie Bogan |
Make 2010 Your Best year Ever Quantuvis Consulting's new study of business performance has strategies for every advisor, regardless of size, business model, or philosophy. |
Financial Advisor
April 2006
David DeVoe |
True Value Understanding what drives the value of your financial advisory firm will not only increase your payday when you sell, it will also increase the firm's profitability -- and consequently, your compensation -- each year you continue to own the business. |
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
October 2010
Maya Ivanova |
A Decade of Evolution Advisory practices make gains, but still face challenges |
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? |
Investment Advisor
May 2008
Mark Tibergien |
Time of Reckoning In volatile times, the reality of practice valuations is exposed. |
